Leo Ching
Biographic Data
| ID | 640334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Ching |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ching |
| SIGNATURE | CHING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The new “Great Game”? Decolonizing wargames in the era of China’s rise
The “new” Great Game suggests that, like the imperial competition of the past, we are witnessing a trans-imperial moment whereby Japan and China are vying for hegemony in East Asia. This is a new moment because East Asia, unlike Europe, has never had two co-existing superpowers. The prospect of a new imperial competition is complicated by the still-present American military power and the non-statist arena, especially in popular culture, where the…
An interview with Leo T. S. Ching
Inspired by his Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia (2019), this interview with Dr. Leo Ching invites the readers’ critical attention and examination on the temporally and spatially complicated coloniality and decolonial outlook in the Asia-Pacific. The postcolonial and post-Pacific-War sentiments encapsulated by the terms “anti-Japanism” and “pro-Japanism” are the anchor points for the inquiries about each of the East…
Beyond Nation and Empire
Beyond Nation and Empire Leo T. S. Ching (bio) Every discursive formation has its own institutional itinerary and condition of possibilities, and Asian studies and Asian American studies are no exceptions. Asian studies emerged out of American Cold War policy that divided the world into delimited regions. The underlying logic was that a region formed a complex whole that was unique and bounded, and could be distinguished from other regions by its…
Colonial Taiwan
Reviewed by: Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature by Pei-yin Lin Leo T. S. Ching (bio) Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature. By Pei-yin Lin. Brill, Leiden, 2017. xiv, 345 pages. €138.00, cloth; €138.00, E-book. The issue of identity/identities haunts the study of Taiwan. From linguistics to political science, from literature to history, various disciplines have taken up ident…
Anti-Japan
Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the fail…
Anti-Japan
Bush, "they" are simply haters of freedom and democracy; for Koizumi Jun'ichirō, "they" are merely Japan bashers who intend to endanger bilateral relations.For both leaders, "they" become an incommensurable difference that only serves to reconsolidate the self-assured identity of the "us."What is lacking is any attempt at selfreflexivity on how the other is constituted through the actions of the self.Despite the myopia and ignorance of the politi…
Reconciliation Otherwise
Research Article| August 01 2018 Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference Leo T. S. Ching Leo T. S. Ching Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-6915557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Leo T. S. Ching; Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Differen…
Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia
Asian regionalism has been predominantly a Japanese-led discourse, strategy, and ideology throughout the region’s modern/colonial history. Asianism’s condition of possibility is inseparable from the history of Western and Japanese imperialism and colonialism. To be more precise, Japan’s evocation of regional solidarity is a response to the real and perceived threat of Western aggression and the justification of its own empire-building in Asia. An…
‘Japanese Devils’
The 2005 anti-Japan protests in China inaugurated a new era of Chinese popular nationalism with their pervasive visuality and virtuality. The outpouring of emotions in cityscapes and cyberspaces – anger, outrage, zealousness and even pleasure – requires us to take emotion, passion, hope or sheer delight seriously and to recognize the power of some of the more alarming forms of popular nationalist sentimentality. This chapter analyses one instance…
Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies and the decolonial‐turn
A black and white photograph of a Taipei cityscape adorns the bright neon‐green cover. Two narrow columns of scripts in various translations of ‘movements’ overlay the left side. Two hundred pages
"Becoming "Japanese
"Becoming Japanese"Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
Becoming Japanese
In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In Becoming Japanese, Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation ( dôka ) and imperialization ( kôminka )…
Savage Construction and Civility Making
Research Article| August 01 2000 Savage Construction and Civility Making: The Musha Incident and Aboriginal Representations in Colonial Taiwan Leo Ching Leo Ching Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2000) 8 (3): 795–818. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8-3-795 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Leo Ching; Savage Construction and Civility Making: The M…
Give Me Japan and Nothing Else
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 4, Fall 2000
Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global
Public Culture - Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2000
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Kuo-rei Chen slouches in his chair, absorbed intently by the images emitting from his thirty-inch Sony Trinitron television. Kuo-rei does not understand the broadcast coming through the stereo-sound speakers. Yet, he recognizes the contest between two 300-pound wrestlers wearing their customary loincloth trying to push the other out of the ring-a traditional Japanese sumo match. Switching to another channel with a tap of his finger, Kuo-rei catch…
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global
Public Culture - Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2000
Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies and the decolonial‐turn
A black and white photograph of a Taipei cityscape adorns the bright neon‐green cover. Two narrow columns of scripts in various translations of ‘movements’ overlay the left side. Two hundred pages
Savage Construction and Civility Making
Research Article| August 01 2000 Savage Construction and Civility Making: The Musha Incident and Aboriginal Representations in Colonial Taiwan Leo Ching Leo Ching Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2000) 8 (3): 795–818. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8-3-795 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Leo Ching; Savage Construction and Civility Making: The M…
Give Me Japan and Nothing Else
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 4, Fall 2000
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun
Kuo-rei Chen slouches in his chair, absorbed intently by the images emitting from his thirty-inch Sony Trinitron television. Kuo-rei does not understand the broadcast coming through the stereo-sound speakers. Yet, he recognizes the contest between two 300-pound wrestlers wearing their customary loincloth trying to push the other out of the ring-a traditional Japanese sumo match. Switching to another channel with a tap of his finger, Kuo-rei catch…
Savage Construction and Civility Making
Research Article| August 01 2000 Savage Construction and Civility Making: The Musha Incident and Aboriginal Representations in Colonial Taiwan Leo Ching Leo Ching Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2000) 8 (3): 795–818. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8-3-795 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Leo Ching; Savage Construction and Civility Making: The M…
Give Me Japan and Nothing Else
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 4, Fall 2000
Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global
Public Culture - Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2000
"Becoming Japanese"Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
Becoming Japanese
In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In Becoming Japanese, Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation ( dôka ) and imperialization ( kôminka )…
"Becoming "Japanese
Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies and the decolonial‐turn
A black and white photograph of a Taipei cityscape adorns the bright neon‐green cover. Two narrow columns of scripts in various translations of ‘movements’ overlay the left side. Two hundred pages
‘Japanese Devils’
The 2005 anti-Japan protests in China inaugurated a new era of Chinese popular nationalism with their pervasive visuality and virtuality. The outpouring of emotions in cityscapes and cyberspaces – anger, outrage, zealousness and even pleasure – requires us to take emotion, passion, hope or sheer delight seriously and to recognize the power of some of the more alarming forms of popular nationalist sentimentality. This chapter analyses one instance…
Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia
Asian regionalism has been predominantly a Japanese-led discourse, strategy, and ideology throughout the region’s modern/colonial history. Asianism’s condition of possibility is inseparable from the history of Western and Japanese imperialism and colonialism. To be more precise, Japan’s evocation of regional solidarity is a response to the real and perceived threat of Western aggression and the justification of its own empire-building in Asia. An…
Reconciliation Otherwise
Research Article| August 01 2018 Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference Leo T. S. Ching Leo T. S. Ching Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-6915557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Leo T. S. Ching; Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Differen…
Anti-Japan
Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the fail…
Anti-Japan
Bush, "they" are simply haters of freedom and democracy; for Koizumi Jun'ichirō, "they" are merely Japan bashers who intend to endanger bilateral relations.For both leaders, "they" become an incommensurable difference that only serves to reconsolidate the self-assured identity of the "us."What is lacking is any attempt at selfreflexivity on how the other is constituted through the actions of the self.Despite the myopia and ignorance of the politi…
Colonial Taiwan
Reviewed by: Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature by Pei-yin Lin Leo T. S. Ching (bio) Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature. By Pei-yin Lin. Brill, Leiden, 2017. xiv, 345 pages. €138.00, cloth; €138.00, E-book. The issue of identity/identities haunts the study of Taiwan. From linguistics to political science, from literature to history, various disciplines have taken up ident…
Beyond Nation and Empire
Beyond Nation and Empire Leo T. S. Ching (bio) Every discursive formation has its own institutional itinerary and condition of possibilities, and Asian studies and Asian American studies are no exceptions. Asian studies emerged out of American Cold War policy that divided the world into delimited regions. The underlying logic was that a region formed a complex whole that was unique and bounded, and could be distinguished from other regions by its…
An interview with Leo T. S. Ching
Inspired by his Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia (2019), this interview with Dr. Leo Ching invites the readers’ critical attention and examination on the temporally and spatially complicated coloniality and decolonial outlook in the Asia-Pacific. The postcolonial and post-Pacific-War sentiments encapsulated by the terms “anti-Japanism” and “pro-Japanism” are the anchor points for the inquiries about each of the East…
The new “Great Game”? Decolonizing wargames in the era of China’s rise
The “new” Great Game suggests that, like the imperial competition of the past, we are witnessing a trans-imperial moment whereby Japan and China are vying for hegemony in East Asia. This is a new moment because East Asia, unlike Europe, has never had two co-existing superpowers. The prospect of a new imperial competition is complicated by the still-present American military power and the non-statist arena, especially in popular culture, where the…
History (14 works) · Japanese History and Culture (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)