The contemporary world has yet to de-imperialize, de-colonize, and de-Cold War. To do so would require a global decolonization movement that reshapes existing modes of thought, regrounds intellectual practices in “world views” already existing in popular life-worlds, and reopens regional and inter-regional network channels disabled by imperialization. This insight has been at the heart of Kuan-Hsing Chen’s practice as a scholar, public intellectual, and an activist since the 1990s. In this talk, Prof. Chen will share lessons in decolonization he has learned over the last three decades at the forefront of an inter-Asia cultural studies movement, and tease out from these lessons proposals relevant for the future of Asian Studies. The proposals issue, in turn, a broader call to revive the spirit of Bandung in building grounded intellectual movements that connect across Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Latin America.