Books by Leo T. S. Ching

Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia, showing how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region.

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. This work examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.