Rate My Professor Richard Chu

Chu is the author of two monographs: The Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s (Brill, 2010; Anvil Publishing, 2012) and The Chinese Merchants of Binondo in the Nineteenth Century (University of Santo Tomas Press, 2010). He has edited volumes such as More Tsinoy Than We Admit: Chinese-Filipino Interaction Over the Centuries (Vibal Publishing, 2015), The State of Scholarship on the Chinese in the Philippines: Problems, Perspectives, and Possibilities (2021), and More Tomboy, More Bakla Than We Admit: Insights into Sexual and Gender Diversity in Philippine Culture, History, and Politics (Vibal Publishing, 2021, co-edited with Mark Blasius). His peer-reviewed articles include “Including the Excluded: The ‘Chinese’ in the Philippines and the Study of ‘Migration’ in Filipinx American Studies” (Fordham University Press, 2022) and “From ‘Sangley’ to ‘Chinaman,’ ‘Chinese Mestizo’ to ‘Tsinoy’: Unpacking ‘Chinese’ Identities in the Philippines at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century” (Asian Ethnicity, 2021). In 2021, Chu received the Distinguished Community Engagement Award from the UMass Amherst Provost’s Office for his community-engaged teaching. He has been re-appointed to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and joined the UMass Amherst History Department in 2004.