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Research Interests
Women and Gender in Chinese History;
Aging and the Elderly in Chinese History;
Children and Childhood in Chinese History;
Traditional Chinese Historiography
Biography
Clara Wing-chung Ho is Professor at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her long-term research work focuses on issues related to gender and age in late imperial China. She has authored/edited/co-edited twenty books and published more than eighty 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. She is Visiting Scholar at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, from January to July, 2024. 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).
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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COUNTING UP AND COUNTING DOWN: APPROACHES TO AGING AMONG QING WRITERS
HO, C.W.-C. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research project
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Getting Older, Doing Worse: Aging-provoked Unhappiness as Seen in Self-narratives of Qing China
HO, C.W.-C. (PI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research project
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The Joy and Frustration of Aging: Self-narratives of Men and Women in Qing China
HO, C.W.-C. (PI)
1/11/20 → 31/10/23
Project: Research project
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SAME COUPLE, SECOND WEDDING: A STUDY OF CHINA'S CHONGFENG HUAZHU CUSTOM FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY
HO, C.W.-C. (PI)
1/11/17 → 31/10/19
Project: Research project
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A History of Aging in Qing China: Self-Representations in Personal Narratives of the Elderly
Ho, C.W.-C., 24 May 2025, 1st ed. Springer. 213 p. (Chinese Culture; vol. 9)Research output: Book/Report › Book or report › peer-review
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年岁自觉、叹老和喜老:清代女性老年史初探
刘咏聪, Feb 2025, In: 妇女与性别史研究. 9, p. 3-20, 208 19 p.Translated title of the contribution :Awareness, Regret, and Enjoyment: Toward a History of Old Age for Women in Qing China Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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明代閨秀史家徐德英
劉詠聰, 7 Nov 2025, 回眸.新探.展望:明清才女文化與性別研究. 何宇軒 & 胡詩琪 (eds.). 台灣: 秀威資訊科技股份有限公司, p. 46-71 26 p.Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Is Forty a Turning Point in the Aging Process? Not Necessarily for Women in Qing China
Ho, C.W.-C., 19 Apr 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper › peer-review
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Toward a History of Aging in Early Modern China: Representations of Multiethnic Women
Ho, C.W.-C., Mar 2024, In: Early Modern Women. 18, 2, p. 328-332 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Prizes
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2021-2022 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship 二零二一至二零二二年度人文學及社會科學傑出學者獎
HO, C.W.-C. (Recipient), 11 Nov 2021
Prize: Other distinction
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Activities
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[Book talk] A History of Aging in Qing China: Self-Representations in Personal Narratives of the Elderly
HO, C.W.-C. (Speaker)
5 Nov 2025Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Delivered a talk, "Enjoying Old Age: Personal Narratives of Qing Writers 喜老:清代文人的自述,"
HO, C.W.-C. (Organiser)
19 Mar 2025Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Presented a paper, "Self-narrated Aging Experiences of the Elderly in Qing China,"
HO, C.W.-C. (Organiser)
16 Mar 2025Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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[Book talk] A History of Aging in Qing China: Self-Representations in Personal Narratives of the Elderly
HO, C.W.-C. (Speaker)
24 Nov 2025Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Virtually presented a paper, "清代女性文人的暮年意識及後事思慮," at the Plenary Session
HO, C.W.-C. (Plenary/keynote speaker)
16 Nov 2024Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves Book Talk
19/10/17
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