Clara Wing Chung HO 劉詠聰 (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Women and Children in Chinese History; Engendering Imperial Chinese History; Eunuchs in Chinese History; Traditional Chinese Historiography; Bibliography
Profile:
Clara Wing Chung Ho is Professor of History at the Hong Kong Baptist University, where she has been serving for more than two decades.
While having a wide variety of research interests, her works focus on women and gender in imperial China. She has conducted several publication/conference projects which involved substantial international collaboration among scholars in the field of women/gender history, including the 2007 conference on the sources for Chinese women's history (link) and the 2010 workshop/exhibition on engendering Chinese history (link), both resulted in published volumes. As a Hong Kong-educated scholar, she is very much committed to research projects and activities that will make Hong Kong count in the international academia. As the holder of the RGC-Fulbright Senior Research Award, she was a Visiting Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, in the 2012-13 academic year.
Her authored books include 《女性與歷史﹕中國傳統觀念新探》[Women and History: A Reappraisal of Traditional Chinese Views] (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co., 1993 & Taipei: Taiwan Commercial Press, 1995);《中國古代的育兒》[Child-rearing in Traditional China] (Beijing: Commercial Press International, 1997 & Taipei: Taiwan Commercial Press, 1998);《德才色權﹕論中國古代女性》[Virtue, Talent, Beauty, and Power: Women in Ancient China] (Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company, 1998). Her edited books include Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (New York and London: M. E. Sharpe Inc., 1998 and Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1999, with a Chinese edition by Sydney University Press, 2010); Windows on the Chinese World: Reflections by Five Historians (Lanham: Lexington Books, Roman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009); Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women's History (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2012); 《性別視野中的中國歷史新貌》[A New Look at Chinese History through the Lens of Gender] (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2012).
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