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First Name
Clara Wing-chung
Last Name
Ho
Country
Hong Kong
State
Affiliation
Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University
Website URL
https://histweb.hkbu.edu.hk/people/detail/25/1/
Keywords
Late imperial Chinese history, women, gender, marriage, children, childhood, aging, old age, the elderly, traditional historiography.
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PhD
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About Me

Clara Wing-chung Ho is Professor at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University.  From 2014 to 2023, she served as the Head of the Department. Her long-term research work focuses on issues related to gender and age in late imperial China.  She has authored/edited/co-edited more than twenty books and published more than ninety single-authored journal articles and book chapters in English and Chinese.  She was elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities in 2011.  On a RGC-Fulbright Senior Research Award, she was a Fulbright Scholar cum Visiting Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston in the 2012-13 academic year.  In 2021, she was awarded “Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship” by RGC.  In 2024, she was Visiting Scholar at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.  She received two autobiography invitations and her self-narratives are published in Zhihui de chuchang: Dangdai renwen nüxuezhe ceying (Henan University Press, 2013) and A Journey into Women’s Studies: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

Recent Publications
  1. A History of Aging in Qing China: Self-Representations in Personal Narratives of the Elderly (Singapore: Springer Nature, forthcoming in 2025).
  2. “Awareness, Regret, and Enjoyment: Toward a History of Old Age for Women in Qing China,” Historical Studies of Women and Gender (Shanghai), forthcoming in 2025.
  3. “Toward a History of Aging in Early Modern China: Representations of Multiethnic Women,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Chicago), 18.2 (Spring 2024): 328-332.
  4. “Lighting the Wedding Candles Again: Records of Chongxie huazhu in the Qing Dynasty and the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” in Feng Zhihong, et al. (eds.), Zhongguo lishi wenhua jiaoyu ji yanjiu (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa, 2021): 13-31.
  5. “Seeking and Managing Wealth: Advice from a Guangdong Mother in Late Qing and Early Republican China,” Frontiers of History in China (Leiden & Beijing), 14.4 (Winter 2019): 508-534.
  6. “60th Wedding Anniversary Celebrations in Late Qing China: The Case of the Wu Qizuo Couple,” Sino-humanitas (Shanghai), 28 (2019.6): 225-274.
  7. “History as Leisure Reading for Ming-Qing Women Poets,” Hsiang Lectures on Chinese Poetry (Montreal), 7 (2015):27-64.
  8. “Collections of Birthday Greetings and Bereavement Messages Published in Honor of Women in Late Imperial and Republican China,” in Shirley Chan, et al. (eds.), Willow Catkins: Festschrift for Dr. Lily Xiao Hong Lee on the Occasion of Her 75th Birthday (Sydney: The Oriental Society of Australia, Inc., 2014): 77-98.
  9. “Working on the History of Chinese Women: My Story,” in Rekha Pande (ed.), A Journey into Women’s Studies: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014): 194-211.
  10. (Ed.), Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2012).
  11. For others, see:
  12. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0039-9990
Media Coverage
https://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item.php?pid=1069&eid=132391&year=2019&display=all&list=1&display=all&lang=zh-CN
Country Focus
China
Expertise by Geography
China
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Literary History