Ming-sho Ho is the director of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan) and a professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. His research interests include social movements, the sociology of labour, and environmental sociology. He is the editor/author of books such as Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene (2021), co-edited with Paul Jobin and Michael Hsin-huang Hsiao, and Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2019). He has also published his work in various journals including Journal of Contemporary Asia, Current History and International Journal of Taiwan Studies.