Leo Ching

About

Leo Ching is a Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, holding a position since 2020. His research interests include colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism. He has published in academic journals such as boundary 2, positions, and Public Culture. In addition to his teaching and research, he serves as the Dean of the Arts & Humanities at Trinity College of Arts & Sciences since 2024. His academic background includes a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from Occidental College. His work often explores themes related to regionalism, decolonization, and cultural activism, contributing to contemporary discussions in global and Asian studies.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Gender studies
• Humanities
• Law
• History
• Psychology
• Economics
• Social psychology
• Geography

Selected publications

• Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia

  Figshare · 2019-01-01 · 12 citations

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  Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In <i>Anti-Japan</i> Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconcilia…

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• ‘JAPANESE DEVILS’

  Cultural Studies · 2012-09-01 · 7 citations

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  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 to take emotion, passion, hope or sheer delight seriously and to recognize the power of some of the more alarming forms of popular nationalist sentimentality. This chapter analyses one instance of Sino-Japanese relations: the epithet of ‘riben…

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• Anti-Japan

  2019-01-01 · 3 citations

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  ever, when I asked some of these students if there's another anti-Japan protest, what would they do, many of them said they will, without hesitation, march on the streets.These students clearly separate consumption from identity: consuming Japanese commodities and culture does not mean that they are becoming Japanese.The reaction to the Japanese military cosplay and the students' maneuvering between consumption and activism point to both the limits and relevance of nationalism today.Pro-and anti…

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• Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia

  2015-11-06 · 3 citations

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  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 colonialism. To be more precise, Japan’s evocation of regional solidarity is a response to the real and perceived threat of Western aggression and the justification of its own empire-building in Asia. Any discussion of regionalism cannot escape the West…

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

  Inter-Asia Cultural Studies · 2023-09-19 · 2 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Pheng Cheah

  University of California, Berkeley

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• Barnor Hesse

  2 shared

• Anne Donadey

  2 shared

• Dominique Chancé

  2 shared

• Étienne Balibar

  2 shared

• Kyu Hyun Kim

  IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

  1 shared

• Shu-mei Shih

  1 shared

• Françoise Lionnet

  Sorbonne Université

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Trinity College Honors 11 for Teaching, Leadership, Diversit…

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