Virtual Talk – Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
November 15, 2021
“Framing China: Visual Technologies, Missionary Modernity, and Transnational Visions in Sino-US Encounters”
Author: josephweiho
Virtual Talk – Global Virtual Speaker Program, Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University
October 1, 2021
“Graven Images: Missionary Visual Practices and Cross-Cultural Imaginations of Religion in China”
Virtual Talk – Long US-China Institute, University of California, Irvine
September 23, 2021
“Photographic Encounters: Visual Technologies and Missionary Modernity in Republican China”
Interview with Anthony E. Clark – “Christianity in China: Recollections on the Field by Prominent Scholars”
December 9, 2020
Whitworth University Library and the China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG) have co-sponsored this series of interviews with scholars in the field of China Christianity Studies. The interview series is entitled, “Christianity in China: Recollections on the Field by Prominent Scholars.” (2020)
Featured in Bucknell Magazine – “A Lens on China” by Jennifer Lin
June 28, 2020
Many missionaries took photos, but Joseph Ho, an assistant professor of history at Albion College and expert in the visual practices of American missionaries in China, calls the Shields collection “absolutely amazing,” not only for the breadth of the imagery, but also because it survived for more than a century. “These rich materials could have vanished into the haze of time at any one point in their historical journey,” Ho explains. … More Featured in Bucknell Magazine – “A Lens on China” by Jennifer Lin
Podcast Interview – East Asia Now, University of Wisconsin
June 28, 2019
East Asia Now podcast interview hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interview Joseph Ho about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photography. Learn about cultural encounters between Americans and China in the early … More Podcast Interview – East Asia Now, University of Wisconsin
Podcast Interview – “An American Missionary in Wartime China”
November 20, 2018
“Ultimate Concerns” podcast interview with Ron Mourad, Professor of Religious Studies, Albion College, Michigan, and Charles Bright, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan. Robert McMullen was working as a Presbyterian missionary in eastern China when Japan invaded the country in 1937. His letters describing the chaotic period that followed are presented in a new … More Podcast Interview – “An American Missionary in Wartime China”
New Edited Book – War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938
January 1, 2018
Co-edited with Charles Bright, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan – published by Rowman & Littlefield and Lehigh University Press … More New Edited Book – War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938
Book Chapter in China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (Brill, 2017)
January 1, 2018
“Imaging Missions, Visualizing Experience: American Presbyterian Photography, Filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in Republican China,” in Anthony E. Clark, ed., China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (Leiden: Brill, 2017) … More Book Chapter in China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (Brill, 2017)
Article in U.S. Catholic Historian
April 2, 2016
“Cameras and Conversions: Crossing Boundaries in American Catholic Missionary Experience and Photography in Modern China,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 34 (2), Spring 2016, 93-120.
Joseph W. Ho 