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Richard Chu
Richard T. Chu (AB Ateneo de Manila University; MA Stanford University; PhD University of Southern California) is Five-College Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He h...view moreRichard T. Chu (AB Ateneo de Manila University; MA Stanford University; PhD University of Southern California) is Five-College Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published various articles focusing on the history of the Chinese and Chinese mestizos in the Philippines and centering on issues of ethnicity, gender, and nationalism. He is the author of Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture 1860s–1930s (Brill, 2010; Anvil, 2012) and Chinese Merchants of Binondo during the Late Nineteenth Century (University of Santo Tomas Press, 2010). He also recently coedited with Mark Blasius an anthology on LGBTIQA+ studies in the Philippines, entitled More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit (Vibal Publishing, 2021). Currently, he is working on his next book project entitled The “Chinaman” Question: A Conundrum in US Imperial Policy in the Philippines, 1898–1908 that analyzes different newspaper articles and other textual materials dealing with the “Chinaman” question in the Philippines and the implementation of the Chinese exclusion laws in the country.view less