Leo Ching

Professor

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

GLS Advisory Committee Term: 2023-26

Leo Ching's 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 Faculty Member

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Publications

The Musha Rebellion as Unthinkable: Coloniality, Aboriginality, and the Epistemology of Colonial Difference (01/2017)

"Cheng wei ’ribenren’" (Becoming ’Japanese’) (01/2006)

An interview with Leo T. S. Ching: on the politics of sentiment, anti- and pro-Japanism, and the coalitional outlook (01/2022)

Regionalizing the Global; Globalizing the Regional: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital (01/2000)

Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise (01/2023)