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Leo Ching, Associate Professor and Chair, Asian & African Languages & Literatures

Contact Info:

Office Location:	2204 Franklin Center 227
Office Phone:	919 684 5240
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Wed 1:00 - 3:00

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, San Diego	1994
M.A.	University of California, Los Angeles	1988
B.A.	Occidental College	1985

Specialties:

Japanese

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.

Keywords:

Asia • japan • Postcolonialism • Globalization • Mass culture

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Volland, N; Ching, LTS, Archipelagic Asias: Fluid Perspectives and Oceanic Methodologies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 10 no. 2 (September, 2024), pp. vi-xx [doi]
2. Ching, LTS; Lim, H, Voices from Cheju (Jeju): Towards an Archipelagic Imagination, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 21 no. 7 (July, 2023)  [abs]
3. Ching, LTS, The new “Great Game”? Decolonizing wargames in the era of China’s rise, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 24 no. 5 (January, 2023), pp. 824-835 [doi]  [abs]
4. Ching, LTS; Shim, D; Yang, FC, Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 24 no. 5 (January, 2023), pp. 737-743 [doi]
5. Ching, LTS; Chang, CHJ, An interview with Leo T. S. Ching: on the politics of sentiment, anti- and pro-Japanism, and the coalitional outlook, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 23 no. 1 (January, 2022), pp. 134-144 [doi]  [abs]