Joseph W. Ho

Books

• Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021)
• War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938, co-edited with Charles Bright (Lehigh University Press, 2017)

Book Chapters

• “Moving Visions: 16mm Filmmaking as Transnational Missionary Apparatus in Twentieth Century East Asia,” in Sixteen at 100: Histories of a Radical Film Format, Gregory A. Waller and Haidee Wasson, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• “Visual Culture: The Convergence of Transnational Images,” in Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution, Daryl R. Ireland, ed. (Baylor University Press, 2023)
• “Imaging Missions, Visualizing Experience: American Presbyterian Photography, Filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in Interwar Republican China,” in China’s Christianity: From Mission to Indigenous Church, Anthony E. Clark ed. (Brill Publishers, 2017)

Selected Articles

• “Between Frames: Missionary Film, Visual Afterlives, and Sino-US Encounters,” The Journal of eMedia Studies, 7, no. 1 (2023), forthcoming
• “Facing History: Strategies for Teaching Chinese and World History with Memoirs,” coauthored with Kristin Stapleton (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Education About Asia, 25, no. 2 (Fall 2020)
• “Outside the Box: Teaching East Asian History with Multimedia Approaches, Technological Artifacts, and Performative Activities,” co-authored with Paul G. Pickowicz (UC San Diego), Jenny Huangfu Day (Skidmore College), and Ya Zuo (Bowdoin College), Education About Asia, 24, no. 3 (Winter 2019): 47-50

Selected Invited Talks

• “Visualizing Nostalgia: Postwar China, Missionary Imaging, and Memories of the Future,” Duke University (March 2023)
• “Envisioning Encounters: Missionary Filmmaking as Transnational Documentary in Twentieth Century China,” Global China Humanities Lecture Series, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (March 2023)
• “At Vision’s Edge: Modern China and American Encounters in Lost Photographs and Film,” Central Michigan University (February 2023)
• “Framing Futurity: Photography, Religious Diaspora, and Transnational Imaginations of Cold War Taiwan,” Taiwan Studies Program, University of Nottingham (October 2022)
• “Missionary Cameras and Modern China in Global Imaginations,” 21st Century China Center, University of California, San Diego (May 2022)
• “Imaging History, Historicizing Images: Transnational Visualities in Cold War Taiwan,” Center for Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (April 2022)

Current Research Projects

• Bamboo Wireless: Mediating the Cold War in Asia (book manuscript in preparation)
• Time Exposures: Catholic Photography and the Evolution of Modern China, co-authored with Anthony E. Clark (under contract, Hong Kong University Press)

Selected Media Coverage

• Article by Cynthia Mwenja, “Sharing East Asian History via Human Experience at Albion College,” in Private University News and Products
• Interview on Developing Mission with Emily Conroy-Krutz, Authors in Conversation podcast, Cornell University Press
• Interview on Developing Mission with Jeremy Salkeld, AskHistorians podcast
• Interview on Developing Mission with Linshan Jiang, New Books Network
• Interview with Anthony E. Clark for “Christianity in China: Recollections on the Field by Prominent Scholars,” China Christianity Studies Group and Whitworth University Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library “China Christian Missions Collection”
• Article by Jennifer Lin, “A Lens on China,” in Bucknell Magazine, Bucknell University