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Leo Ching

Leo Ching
Title: Associate Professor and Chair
Office Location: 220 Trent Hall
Office Phone: 919 684 5240
Office Fax: 919 681 7871
Email Address: lching@duke.edu
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Office Hours:

Mon 1:00 - 3:00

Education

  • PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1994
  • MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988
  • BA, Occidental College, 1985

Research Interests

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.
Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. L. Ching. ""Japan in Asia"." Blackwell Companion to Japanese History  (Accepted, 2006).
  2. L. Ching. "Cheng wei 'ribenren'" (Becoming 'Japanese').  Rye-Field Publishing, 2006. (Chinese translation of "Becoming 'Japanese'")
  3. L. Ching. "Regionalizing the Global; Globalizing the Regional: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital."  Spanish translation of an earlier article in Public Culture Criterios, Cuban Journal on Theory of Culture, Arts and Literature  (Summer, 2003).
  4. "Savage Construction and Civility Making: Japanese Colonial Discourse and Taiwanese Aborigines." Japan and Cultural Imperialism a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique (Winter, 2000): 795-818.
  5. "’Give Me Japan and Nothing Else!’: Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces Colonialism” in Millennial Japan: Rethinking the Nation in the Age of Recession." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Fall, 2000): 763-788.