Denise Y. Ho is an Assistant Professor in the department of history at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese history from Harvard University and taught previously at the University of Kentucky and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an historian of 20th-century China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of the Mao period. Her current book project is a history of museums and exhibitions entitled Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.
Her articles and reviews have appeared in The China Quarterly, China Review International, Frontiers of History in China, History Compass, Modern China, The Journal of Asian Studies, and the PRC History Review. Chapters by Denise Ho will appear in the forthcoming volumes Red Legacies: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (Harvard University Press) and The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture (Oxford University Press). She has written for The Atlantic, The China Beat, China Policy Institute, Dissent Magazine, The Nation, and Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.
