Ming-Sho Ho

Ming-sho Ho is a professor in the 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), Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2019), and Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests (2025).

Education

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

Academic Honors

• Australian National University Centre on China in the Word Visiting Fellow (2026)
• Rikkyo University Visiting Researcher (2025)
• Waseda Institute of Advanced Study Visiting Researcher Grant (2025)
• Sumitomo Foundation Grant (2020)
• Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)(2019)
• Harvard-Yenching Institute 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)

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)

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• ——, 2025, Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• ——, Chun-hao Huang, Yun-chung Ting, and Thung-Hong Lin, 2025, “Reactivating a Movement Legacy: Taiwan’s Political Protests from Sunflowers to Bluebirds.” Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2025.2481049. (SSCI)
• ——, 2025, “From Mobilization to Aftercare: Movement Trauma and Care Work for Exiled Hongkongers.” Journal of Civil Society, DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2025.2500358. (SSCI)
• —— and Wei An Chen, 2025, “Solidarity, Democracy, or Peace? Diverging Taiwanese Perspectives on the Russo-Ukrainian War across Civil Society and Political Parties.” China Information, DOI: 10.1177/0920203X251341718. (SSCI)
• —— and Wei An Chen, 2025, “Tactical Choices of Diaspora Movements: Comparing Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and Ukrainian Mobilizations in Taiwan.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 48(16): 3222-3244. (SSCI)
• ——, 2024, “Movement Meaning of Money: Monetary Mobilization in Hong Kong’s Prodemocracy Movement.” Sociological Review 72(2): 432-450. (SSCI)
• ——, 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 65(4): 499-516. (SSCI).
• —— and Yun-Chung Ting, 2023, “Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986-2016.” Government and Opposition 59(3): 825-844. (SSCI)
• ——, 2023, “Hongkongers’ International Front: The Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 54(2): 238-259. (SSCI)
• ——, 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. (SSCI)
• ——, 2022, “Desinicizing Taiwan: The Making of a Democratic National Identity.” Current History 121 (836): 211-217. (SSCI)
• ——, 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. (SSCI)
• —— 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. (SSCI)