Leo Ching, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern 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.
Office Location: | 2204 Franklin Center, Room 227, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708 |
Office Phone: | +1 919 684 4309 |
Email Address: | |
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- AMES 605.01, EAST ASIAN CULTURAL ST
Synopsis
- East Duke 108, Th 03:05 PM-05:55 PM
- (also cross-listed as CULANTH 605.01, ICS 605.01, LIT 571.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):
- AMES 165S.01, THE WORLD OF JAPANESE POP CULT
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 216, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- (also cross-listed as CULANTH 365S.01)
- AMES 463S.01, NIGHTMARE JAPAN
Synopsis
- East Duke 108, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- (also cross-listed as CULANTH 463S.01)
- Office Hours:
- Tuesday 1:00-3:00 pm or by appointment
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of California, San Diego | 1994 |
M.A. | University of California, Los Angeles | 1988 |
B.A. | Occidental College | 1985 |
- Specialties:
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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:
- Decolonization • Physical geography
- Recent Publications
- Ching, LTS; Lim, H, Voices from Cheju (Jeju): Towards an Archipelagic Imagination,
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 21 no. 7
(July, 2023) [abs]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Ching, LTS, Beyond nation and empire,
American Quarterly, vol. 73 no. 2
(June, 2021),
pp. 383-388 [doi]