Chen Kuan-Hsing

Chen Kuan-Hsing (simplified Chinese: 陈光兴; traditional Chinese: 陳光興) is an intellectual (based in Taiwan) who works in the field of inter-Asian Cultural Studies. He has been a co-editor (with Chua Being Huat, NUS) of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studiessince 2000, as a continuation of the Trajectories: Towards a new internationalist localism Conferences (see Trajectories, Roulade, 1998). Author of Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization (Duke University Press, 2010) and numerous other publications, his approach to cultural studies has been described as one of calling for"'Asia as method'... the basic idea being to multiply points of reference within Asia so as to de-imperialize and de-colonize.

A writer, editor, reporter, cultural organizer, curator, and Tibetan Buddhist, Kuan-Hsing Chen retired from the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2017. Founding chair of the board of trustees for the Inter-Asia School (an international NPO), he taught in Tsing Hua University (1990-2008) and has held (and is still having long term affiliation with) visiting professorships at universities in the US (UC Berkeley), Japan (Tokyo U), Korea (Yonsei U), China (Shanghai U, Nanjing U and Xiamen U), Hong Kong (Lingnan U), Singapore (NUS), Uganda (Makerere U), and Ethiopia (U of Addis Ababa), Toshisha U and Ritsumenken U (Kyoto).

His publication includes Asia as Method—Towards De-imperialization (Duke University, 2010) with Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Thai editions; and Chen Yingzhe's Third World: Life and Afterlife of the 1950s Leftists (2017, in Chinese). He has edited volumes in English, including Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (Routeldge 1996) and Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routeldge 1998), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader (Routeldge 2007), and in Chinese: Cultural Studies in Taiwan (2000) and The Partha Chatterjee Seminar--Locating Political Society (2000), Thought and Literature: Chen Yingzhen (2009), Chinese Revolution Reconsidered: Mizoguchi's Mode of Thought (2010), Paik Naik-chung: Division System and National Literature (2010), Chen Yingzhen: Thought and Literature (2011), Decolonizing the World: A Mahmood Mamdani Reader (2016), etc.

Founding chair of Taiwan's Cultural Studies Association, founding member of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (and its Consortium). In recent years, he has been involved in the West Heavens Project and in establishing the Inter-Asia School to launch the Modern Asian Thought project; with these involvements, he and other members of the Inter-Asia School have organized "Indian-China Social Thought Forum" (2010), "Asian Circle of Thought Shanghai Summit" (2012), "Inter-Asia Biennale Forum" (since 2014) and "Bandung/Third World 60 Years Series" (2015). At this moment, he participates in launching Council for Social Research in Asia, the Bandung Institute for Africa-Asia-America-Caribbean on Hangzhou's China Academy of Art campus, Another World Center, Critical Creative Industry (Factory) Lab and Agon Roundtable, as well as "Ancient Capital City Xuyi leading the world in new era" project. A core member of the Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, he is a co-editor of the magazine, Renjian Thought Review (mandarin Chinese; 2010-).

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