Leo Ching, Director

Please note: Leo has left the "International Comparative Studies Program" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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.

Contact Info:

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)

• 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)

Office Hours:

Wed. 1-3 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:

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   (More Publications)

1. Ching, LTS; Lim, H, Voices from Cheju (Jeju): Towards an Archipelagic Imagination, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 21 no. 7 (July, 2023)  [abs]
2. 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]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. Ching, LTS, Beyond nation and empire, American Quarterly, vol. 73 no. 2 (June, 2021), pp. 383-388 [doi]