Mrs. Chooi Hon Ho
Honorary Research Fellow
email: Chooihon.Ho@adm.monash.edu.au
Mrs. Chooi Hon Ho (M.Admin (Monash)) is an Honorary Research Fellow at Monash Asia Institute. She holds degrees from University of Malaya (BA Hons) and Monash University (M.Admin), as well as professional qualifications in library and information science. She initiated and was instrumental in establishing the Asian Studies Research Library with a team of subject specialist resource librarians to support the University’s Asian Studies programs. This initiative was recognised by the University in 2000 when the Asian Studies Research Library team was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Exceptional Performance. She was a member of Monash University Library Management Committee for more than 15 years and retired as Director of Corporate Services and International Development of Monash University Library in 2004.
Chooi Hon Ho has extensive experience with the Chinese community in Victoria. A foundation member and past president of the Chinese Association of Victoria (CAV), she has been editor of many of its publications including the CAV Newsletter for 20 years.
Her research interests include the settlement characteristics of the Chinese in Australia and the Chinese diaspora.
Selected Publications
Ho Chooi Hon & Kee Pookong “The Chinese Association of Victoria: A Case Study of Community Development”, in Kee Pookong, Ho Chooi-Hon, Macgregor, Paul and Presland, Gary (Editors). Chinese in Oceania, Museum of the Chinese Australian History, Centre for Asia Pacific Studies and Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands, Melbourne, 2002.
Kee Pookong. Ho Chooi Hon, Macgregor, Paul and Presland, Gary (Editors). Chinese in Oceania, Museum of the Chinese Australian History, Centre for Asia Pacific Studies and Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands, Melbourne, 2002.
Ho Chooi Hon & Coglan, James, “The Chinese in Australia: Immigrants from the People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau” in Asians in Australia : patterns of migration and settlement, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1997.
Ho Chooi Hon & Kee Pookong, “A profile of the Chinese in Australia”, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 9, No.2, 1-16, 1988
Ho Chooi Hon, “Mainstreaming Asian Studies:Managing Library Resources for an Effective Asian Information Service in Australian Tertiary Institutions”, in International Association of Orientalist Librarians Ninth General Meeting at the 34 ICANAS:Proceedings. University of Hong Kong, Libraries, Hong Kong, 1993.
Full details of Mrs Chooi Hon Ho's Curriculum Vitae
Current Research
Chooi Hon Ho is currently working in collaboration with Professor Kee Pookong, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) Japan on the Chinese Australian Contributions to the Health Professions.