Chen Kuan-Hsing is a Taiwanese intellectual who works in the field of inter-Asian cultural studies.[1] He is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. He is the author of Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization (Duke University Press, 2010) and numerous other publications.

Chen Kuan-Hsing
陳光興
NationalityTaiwanese
CitizenshipRepublic of China
Occupation(s)Professor, National Chiao Tung University
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Iowa, Fu Jen University
Chen Kuan-hsing
Traditional Chinese陳光興
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChén Guāngxīng

His approach to cultural studies has been described as one of calling 'for using 'Asia as method' ... the basic idea being to multiply points of reference within Asia so as to de-emphasize, if not necessarily abandon, the orthodox preoccupations of the west'.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "陳光興 | Kuan-Hsing CHEN".
  2. ^ Vukovich, Daniel (2013). "Chapter 26: Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the 'Asia Question'". In Huggan, Graham (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies. OUP. p. 590.