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Leo Ching

Leo Ching

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
lching@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Franklin Center, Room 227, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Archipelagic Asias: Fluid Perspectives and Oceanic Methodologies

Journal Article Verge: Studies in Global Asias · September 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Voices from Cheju (Jeju): Towards an Archipelagic Imagination

Journal Article Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus · July 21, 2023 The essay profiles five artists and activists from Cheju Island and narrates their work and commitment to keeping the legacies of the vi cti ms of the i nfamous Chej u 4. 3 Inci dent al i ve i n publ i c di scourse. Thei r acti vi sm, embedded i n l ocal h ... Cite

The new “Great Game”? Decolonizing wargames in the era of China’s rise

Journal Article Inter-Asia Cultural Studies · January 1, 2023 The “new” Great Game suggests that, like the imperial competition of the past, we are witnessing a trans-imperial moment whereby Japan and China are vying for hegemony in East Asia. This is a new moment because East Asia, unlike Europe, has never had two c ... Full text Cite

Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise

Journal Article Inter-Asia Cultural Studies · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

YELLOW SKIN, WHITE MASKS: Race, Class, and Identification in Japanese Colonial Discourse

Chapter · January 1, 2023 From Kuan-Hsing Chen (ed.) Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Routledge, 1998, 65-86. ... Full text Cite

An interview with Leo T. S. Ching: on the politics of sentiment, anti- and pro-Japanism, and the coalitional outlook

Journal Article Inter-Asia Cultural Studies · January 1, 2022 Inspired by his Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia (2019), this interview with Dr. Leo Ching invites the readers’ critical attention and examination on the temporally and spatially complicated coloniality and decolonial outlook ... Full text Cite

Beyond nation and empire

Journal Article American Quarterly · June 1, 2021 Full text Cite

The Musha Rebellion as Unthinkable: Coloniality, Aboriginality, and the Epistemology of Colonial Difference

Chapter · January 1, 2017 From all aspects, their brutality was truly detestable…. But I personally felt, somehow with virtuous persuasion and proper guidance, I would want to have them on the front line as part of the military under our command for future emergency. I remember thi ... Full text Cite

Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia

Chapter · January 1, 2015 Asian regionalism has been predominantly a Japanese-led discourse, strategy, and ideology throughout the region’s modern/colonial history. Asianism’s condition of possibility is inseparable from the history of Western and Japanese imperialism and coloniali ... Full text Cite

'Japanese Devils': The conditions and limits of anti-Japanism in China

Journal Article Cultural Studies · September 1, 2012 The 2005 anti-Japan protests in China inaugurated a new era of Chinese popular nationalism with their pervasive visuality and virtuality. The outpouring of emotions in cityscapes and cyberspaces - anger, outrage, zealousness and even pleasure - requires us ... Full text Cite

Inter-Asia cultural studies and the decolonial-turn

Journal Article Inter-Asia Cultural Studies · June 1, 2010 Full text Cite

Japan in Asia

Journal Article · December 13, 2007 Full text Cite

"Japan in Asia"

Chapter · 2006 Cite