Chen Kuan-Hsing (陳光興) is a critical theorist based in Taiwan. He has recently retired as professor in the Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies (the only academic faculty of cultural studies in Taiwan) at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He was born and grew up in Taiwan and received his PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Iowa, USA. After his academic training and teaching in North America, he moved back to Taiwan to develop his postcolonialist exploration into the future of Asia. He began utilising resources from Asia rather than continuing to import Western knowledge into the East Asian context.

He is a founder of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Project and has worked as a co-editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies published by Routledge. His publications include Chen (2010) Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Durham: Duke University Press, Morley, David and Kuan‐Hsing Chen (1996), eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London, UK: Routledge. He is now the co-initiator of Inter-Asia School, Neuro-Net, and Bandung Schools.