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Research Interests for Leo Ching

Research Interests: Popular Cultural and Colonial 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.

Recent Publications
  1. L. Ching, "Japan in Asia", in Blackwell Companion to Japanese History, edited by William Tsutsui (Accepted, 2006), Blackwell
  2. L. Ching, "Cheng wei 'ribenren'" (Becoming 'Japanese') (2006), Rye-Field Publishing (Chinese translation of "Becoming 'Japanese'".)
  3. L. Ching, Regionalizing the Global; Globalizing the Regional: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital, Criterios, Cuban Journal on Theory of Culture, Arts and Literature (Summer, 2003) (Spanish translation of an earlier article in Public Culture.)
  4. Savage Construction and Civility Making: Japanese Colonial Discourse and Taiwanese Aborigines, in Japan and Cultural Imperialism, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique, edited by Gennifer Weisenfeld (Winter, 2000), pp. 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, edited by Harry Harootunian and Tomiko Yoda, South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall, 2000), pp. 763-788

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