Denise Ho
Modern China, Cultural Revolution, material culture, urban history
Selected Publications
Book
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Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Articles and Chapters
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“Revolutionizing Antiquity: The Shanghai Cultural Bureaucracy in the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1968.” The China Quarterly, no. 207 (September 2011), pp. 687-705.
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“Reforming Connoisseurship: State and Collectors in Shanghai in the 1950s and 1960s” (改造文物鉴赏:1950-1960年代政府与文物收藏家的博弈). Frontiers of History in China, Volume 7, Issue 4 (2012), pp. 608-637.
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“Culture, Class, and Revolution in China’s Turbulent Decade: A Cultural Revolution State of the Field.” History Compass, Vol. 12/3 (2014), pp. 226-238.
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“From Landlord Manor to Red Memorabilia: Reincarnations of a Chinese Museum Town,” co-authored with Jie Li. Modern China, Volume 42, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 3-37.
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“Making a Revolutionary Monument: The Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party,” in Red Legacy in China: The Afterlives of the Communist Revolution in Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society, edited by Jie Li and Enhua Zhang. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016, pp. 25-55.
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“The Old Society and the New Society: Towards a Material Culture of China’s Cultural Revolution,” in The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture, edited by Sarah Carter and Ivan Gaskell. Forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
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“Museum,” in The Afterlives of Chinese Communism, edited by Christian Sorace. Under review with Australian National University Press.
Selected Commentary
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The Atlantic, “Chairman Mao’s Everyman Makeover,” December 19, 2013
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Dissent, “On Hong Kong’s Tian’anmen Museum,” May 1, 2014
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Origins, “Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong,” June 2014
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China File, “Against My Fear, I See That You Hope: A Professor’s Open Letter to Her Students,” September 29, 2014
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China File, “A New Opera and Hong Kong’s Utopian Legacy,” April 10, 2015
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Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Cultural Revolution at 50: Part I,” February 24, 2016
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Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Cultural Revolution at 50: Part II,” March 2, 2016
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Even, “Imperial by Design?” June, 2017
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Dissent, “Hong Kong’s New Normal,” August 23, 2017
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Los Angeles Review of Books, “Exhibition as Theater: Art and China After 1989 at the Guggenheim,” October 20, 2017