Leo Ching | Scholars@Duke

Leo Ching
Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

His research interests include colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism. He has published in boundary 2 , positions and Public Culture .

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020

Contact Information

2204 Franklin Center, Room 227, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
lching@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of California - San Diego 1994
- M.A., University of California - Los Angeles 1988
- B.A., Occidental College 1985
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2021
- Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2020
- Interim Chair of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
- Associate Professor in the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2014
- Chair, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2014
- Chair, Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2010
- Assistant Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2001
- Assistant Professor, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994 - 1998
Recognition
In the News
- FEB 11, 2022 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  The Many Meanings of Decolonization
- APR 17, 2020
  
  Trinity College Honors 11 for Teaching, Leadership, Diversity
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
- Research
  - Japan (Country)
- Teaching
  - China (Country)
Research
External Relationships
- Duke University Press, University of California Press,
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Ching, Leo. Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
    Open Access Copy
  - Ching, L. "Cheng wei ’ribenren’" (Becoming ’Japanese’). Rye-Field Publishing, 2006.
  - Ching, L. Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. University of California Press, 2000.
- Academic Articles
  - Ching, L. T. S., and C. H. J. Chang. “An interview with Leo T. S. Ching: on the politics of sentiment, anti- and pro-Japanism, and the coalitional outlook.” Inter Asia Cultural Studies 23, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 134–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2022.2026589.
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  - Ching, L. T. S. “Beyond nation and empire.” American Quarterly 73, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 383–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2021.0020.
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  - Ching, L. T. S. “Reconciliation otherwise: Intimacy, indigeneity, and the Taiwan difference.” Boundary 2 45, no. 3 (August 1, 2018): 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-6915557.
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  - Ching, L. “'Japanese Devils': The conditions and limits of anti-Japanism in China.” Cultural Studies 26, no. 5 (September 1, 2012): 710–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.697728.
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  - Ching, L. “Champion of justice: How asian heroes saved Japanese imperialism.” Pmla 126, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 644–50. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.3.644.
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  - Ching, L. “Inter-Asia cultural studies and the decolonial-turn.” Inter Asia Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (June 1, 2010): 184–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649371003616102.
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  - Ching, L. “Japan in Asia,” December 13, 2007, 407–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470751398.ch24.
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  - Ching, L. “Globalizing the regional, regionalizing the global: Mass culture and Asianism in the age of late capital.” Public Culture 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 233–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-233.
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  - Ching, L. “’Give Me Japan and Nothing Else!’: Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces Colonialism” in Millennial Japan: Rethinking the Nation in the Age of Recession.” Edited by Harry Harootunian and Tomiko Yoda. South Atlantic Quarterly, 2000, 763–88.
  - Leo Ching, H. P. “Regionalizing the Global; Globalizing the Regional: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital.” Public Culture 12, no. 1 (2000): 233–57.
- Book Sections
  - Maitra, A., and R. Chow. “What’s“in”? Disaggregating Asia through new media actants.” In Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia, 17–27, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774626.
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  - Ching, L. T. S. “Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia.” In Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia, 39–52, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774626-11.
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  - Ching, L. “"Japan in Asia".” In Blackwell Companion to Japanese History, edited by William Tsutsui. Blackwell, 2006.
  - Ching, L. “Savage Construction and Civility Making: Japanese Colonial Discourse and Taiwanese Aborigines.” In Japan and Cultural Imperialism, edited by Gennifer Weisenfeld, 795–818, 2000.
  - Ching, L. “"Shiko fukanosei toshite no Mushajiken” (The Musha Rebellion as Unthinkable).” In “Kioku Suru Taiwan” (Taiwan Remembers: Encountering Empire), edited by Wu Mitsa, Tarumi Chie, and Huang Ying-che, 103–29. Tokyo University Press, n.d.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Teaching

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Recent Courses