Ming-Sho Ho

Ming-sho Ho is a professor in Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University. He studies social movements, labor and environmental issues. He is the author of Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises (2014) and Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2019).

Education

• Ph. D. in Sociology, National Taiwan University (2000)
• BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (1995)

Academic Honors

• Sumitomo Foundation Grant (2020)
• Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)(2019)
• Harvard-Yenching Grant (2018-2019)
• Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan) (2015, 2021)
• Dr. Wu Ta-yu’s Award for Young Scholars (National Science Council, Taiwan) (2008)
• Fulbright Grant (2004-2005)
• Ministry of Education’s Grant for International Study (2004-2005)
• The Award for the Best Ph. D. Dissertation, Taiwan’s Sociological Association (2001)
• Ph. D. Candidate Support Grant, Academia Sinica (1999-2000)Visiting Scholar Grant, Hong Kong Chinese University (1998)

Employment

• Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University (2009-now)
• Gradate Institute of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University (2008-2009)
• Department of Applied Sociology, Nanhua University (2001-2008)

• ——, 2024, “Movement Meaning of Money: Monetary Mobilization in Hong Kong’s Prodemocracy Movement.” Sociological Review 72(2): 432-450. 
• ——, 2023, “Relational Tactics and Trust in High-risk Activism: Anonymity, Preexisting Ties, and Bonding in Hong Kong’s 2019-20 Protest.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, DOI: 10.1177/00207152231220524.
• —— and Yun-Chung Ting, 2023, “Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986-2016.” Government and Opposition, DOI: 10.1017/gov.2023.25.
• ——, 2023, “Hongkongers’ International Front: The Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2168208.
• ——, and Yao-Tai Li, 2022, “‘I became a Taiwanese after I left Taiwan’: Identity Shift among Young Immigrants in the United States.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 30(2): 237-256.
• ——, 2022, “Desinicizing Taiwan: The Making of a Democratic National Identity.” Current History 121 (836): 211-217.
• ——, 2021, “Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A Relational Explanation of the Ascendancy of Pro-Nuclear Activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020.” Social Movement Studies 22(5-6): 628-647.
• —— and Wai Ki Wan, 2021, “Universities as an Arena of Contentious Politics: Mobilization and Control in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement of 2019.” International Studies in Sociology of Education 32(2): 313-336.
• ——, 2020, “The Changing Memory of Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan: From Patriotism to Universal Values (1989-2019).” China Information 36(1): 90–111.
• ——, 2020, “How Protesters Evolve: Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement and the Lessons Learned from the Umbrella Movement.” Mobilization: An International Journal, 25 (5): 711-728.
• ——, 2020, “From Unionism to Youth Activism: Taiwan’s Politics of Working Hours.” China Information, 34(3): 406-426.
• ——, 2019, “Taiwan’s Road to Marriage Equality: Politics of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage.” China Quarterly 238: 482-503.