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    Rowena He
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    Rowena He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. She is author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China and a three-time recipient of the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence. Her op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.

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    Rowena He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. Her first book, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China, was named Top Five China Books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile. The book has been positively reviewed in The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Human Rights Quarterly, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the University of Texas at Austin.

    Dr. He’s scholarly opinions are regularly sought by international media and her op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, and The Nation. She has testified before US Congressional hearings and delivered lectures for the US State Department and Global Affairs Canada. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016.

    Dr. He's teaching has been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Magazine, and The Wellesley News. She received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023, the Chinese Communist government in Hong Kong denied the renewal of her work visa, and her position as an associate professor of history was terminated “with immediate effect.”

    Born and raised in China, she received her PhD from the University of Toronto

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Rowena X. He (何曉清) is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. A specialist of the 1989 Tiananmen Movement and its subsequent massacre, she is interested in the nexus of history, memory, and power. Her writing, teaching, and public speaking focus on the history of politics and the politics of history and their implications on public opinion, human rights, nationalism, democratization, and war and peace.

Her first book, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China, was named in the Top Five China Books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile. The book has been positively reviewed in The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Christian Science Monitor, Human Rights Quarterly, American Diplomacy, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. He’s op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, and The Nation. She has testified before US Congressional hearings and delivered lectures for the US State Department and Global Affairs Canada. Her scholarly opinions are regularly sought and she has been interviewed by the ABC (Australia), Associated Press, The Asahi Shimbun (Japan), BBC, CBC, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, CTV, Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Inside Higher Ed, Le Monde (France), NPR, National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, Time Magazine, The Times (London), Times Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016.

Dr. He’s teaching has been featured by the Harvard Magazine, The Wellesley News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received its Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023, the Chinese Communist government in Hong Kong denied the renewal of her work visa, and her position as an associate professor of history was terminated “with immediate effect.”

Born and raised in China, she received her PhD from the University of Toronto.

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