Denise Y Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 198889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Y Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO D Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Make a Mao Suit
Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong
Journal Article Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. Get access Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xv, 419. Paper $35.00. Denise Y. Ho Denise Y. Ho Yale University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hi…
Oysterman and Refugee
This article examines the Hong Kong-China maritime border since 1949, when the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the onset of the Cold War turned the 1898 imperial boundary into an ideological line, one that nonetheless remained porous to ties of trade and kinship. It focuses on the oyster-producing communities in the tidelands of the Pearl River estuary, showing how oystermen-some of them also refugees-faced security threats ex…
Material Contradictions in Mao's China
An excavation of the sociocultural, economic, and political history of everyday commodities The growth of markets and consumerism in China’s post-Mao era of political and economic reform is a story familiar to many. By contrast, the Mao period (1949–1976)—rightly framed as a time of scarcity—initially appears to have had little material culture to speak of. Yet people attributed great meaning to materials and objects often precisely because they …
Transformation of Shen Kong Borderlands
Hong Kong, China
E mily H onig and X iaojian Z hao . Across the Great Divide
If China’s socialist project was one of the defining revolutions of the twentieth century, then its Cultural Revolution–era movement of sent-down youth—relocating some seventeen million urban youngsters to the countryside—is surely one of the most significant social experiments that continue to shape our times. In their new book, Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao’s China, 1968–1980, Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao, schola…
From Confiscation to Collection
This chapter examines two categories of material culture from the People’s Republic of China: the remnants of pre-1949 “old society,” designated the “four olds” and the focus of confiscations during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), and the products of “new society,” made for socialist New China. Using archival material and oral histories, this chapter demonstrates how objects were associated with class during the Cultural Revolution. Objects …
W ang Z heng . Finding Women in the State
In the intellectual and cultural flowering of China’s May Fourth Movement (1919), Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House became a powerful touchstone. The main character, Nora, who leaves a stifling household and enters the world on her own, captivated a generation of young Chinese. That the play ended only with Nora’s exit did not escape Chinese observers; wondering about the society Nora would face, the writer Lu Xun spoke on the question in his 19…
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published eleven “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The aim is to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high lev…
Curating Revolution
How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949–1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum workers collected cultural and revolutionary relics; neighborhoods, schools, and work units mounted and narrated local displays; and exhibits provided…
From Landlord Manor to Red Memorabilia
What was a revolutionary museum in the Mao era, and what are the lives and afterlives of its artifacts? This article traces the exhibitionary culture of the town of Anren, home to both the Mao-era sculptural icon the Rent Collection Courtyard and the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, China’s largest private museum and collection of Maoist memorabilia. Examining the production and reception of exhibits from the 1950s to the present, we argue that—far from…
Culture, Class, and Revolution in China's Turbulent Decade
This article surveys the recent scholarship on China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) from a variety of disciplines. It selects three keywords – culture, class, and revolution – and shows how contemporary research has reframed our understanding of each concept. Studies of culture argue that Cultural Revolution culture was an integral part of China's 20th century project of modernization, examinations of class challenge the role of class status i…
Revolutionizing Antiquity
This article examines the response of Shanghai's cultural bureaucracy during the Attack on the Four Olds, the Red Guard repudiation of old culture launched in the early years of China's Cultural Revolution (1966–76). It focuses on how local officials, acting in a space created by the Central Cultural Revolution Group and the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee, worked to control the damage wrought by the political campaign and justified their activi…
From Landlord Manor to Red Memorabilia
What was a revolutionary museum in the Mao era, and what are the lives and afterlives of its artifacts? This article traces the exhibitionary culture of the town of Anren, home to both the Mao-era sculptural icon the Rent Collection Courtyard and the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, China’s largest private museum and collection of Maoist memorabilia. Examining the production and reception of exhibits from the 1950s to the present, we argue that—far from…
Culture, Class, and Revolution in China's Turbulent Decade
This article surveys the recent scholarship on China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) from a variety of disciplines. It selects three keywords – culture, class, and revolution – and shows how contemporary research has reframed our understanding of each concept. Studies of culture argue that Cultural Revolution culture was an integral part of China's 20th century project of modernization, examinations of class challenge the role of class status i…
Revolutionizing Antiquity
This article examines the response of Shanghai's cultural bureaucracy during the Attack on the Four Olds, the Red Guard repudiation of old culture launched in the early years of China's Cultural Revolution (1966–76). It focuses on how local officials, acting in a space created by the Central Cultural Revolution Group and the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee, worked to control the damage wrought by the political campaign and justified their activi…
Culture, Class, and Revolution in China's Turbulent Decade
This article surveys the recent scholarship on China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) from a variety of disciplines. It selects three keywords – culture, class, and revolution – and shows how contemporary research has reframed our understanding of each concept. Studies of culture argue that Cultural Revolution culture was an integral part of China's 20th century project of modernization, examinations of class challenge the role of class status i…
From Landlord Manor to Red Memorabilia
What was a revolutionary museum in the Mao era, and what are the lives and afterlives of its artifacts? This article traces the exhibitionary culture of the town of Anren, home to both the Mao-era sculptural icon the Rent Collection Courtyard and the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, China’s largest private museum and collection of Maoist memorabilia. Examining the production and reception of exhibits from the 1950s to the present, we argue that—far from…
Curating Revolution
How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949–1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum workers collected cultural and revolutionary relics; neighborhoods, schools, and work units mounted and narrated local displays; and exhibits provided…
W ang Z heng . Finding Women in the State
In the intellectual and cultural flowering of China’s May Fourth Movement (1919), Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House became a powerful touchstone. The main character, Nora, who leaves a stifling household and enters the world on her own, captivated a generation of young Chinese. That the play ended only with Nora’s exit did not escape Chinese observers; wondering about the society Nora would face, the writer Lu Xun spoke on the question in his 19…
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published eleven “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The aim is to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high lev…
From Confiscation to Collection
This chapter examines two categories of material culture from the People’s Republic of China: the remnants of pre-1949 “old society,” designated the “four olds” and the focus of confiscations during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), and the products of “new society,” made for socialist New China. Using archival material and oral histories, this chapter demonstrates how objects were associated with class during the Cultural Revolution. Objects …
Transformation of Shen Kong Borderlands
Hong Kong, China
E mily H onig and X iaojian Z hao . Across the Great Divide
If China’s socialist project was one of the defining revolutions of the twentieth century, then its Cultural Revolution–era movement of sent-down youth—relocating some seventeen million urban youngsters to the countryside—is surely one of the most significant social experiments that continue to shape our times. In their new book, Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao’s China, 1968–1980, Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao, schola…
Material Contradictions in Mao's China
An excavation of the sociocultural, economic, and political history of everyday commodities The growth of markets and consumerism in China’s post-Mao era of political and economic reform is a story familiar to many. By contrast, the Mao period (1949–1976)—rightly framed as a time of scarcity—initially appears to have had little material culture to speak of. Yet people attributed great meaning to materials and objects often precisely because they …
Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong
Journal Article Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. Get access Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xv, 419. Paper $35.00. Denise Y. Ho Denise Y. Ho Yale University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hi…
Oysterman and Refugee
This article examines the Hong Kong-China maritime border since 1949, when the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the onset of the Cold War turned the 1898 imperial boundary into an ideological line, one that nonetheless remained porous to ties of trade and kinship. It focuses on the oyster-producing communities in the tidelands of the Pearl River estuary, showing how oystermen-some of them also refugees-faced security threats ex…
How to Make a Mao Suit
Political science (12 works) · China (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (8 works) · Cultural revolution (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)