Julia Ching, CM RSC (Chinese: 秦家懿; pinyin: Qín Jiāyì) (1934 – October 26, 2001) was professor of religion, philosophy and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto.
After completing high school at Sacred Heart Canossian College in Hong Kong, Ching studied at the College of New Rochelle in New York and then served as an Ursuline nun for two decades, completing a master's degree at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, before obtaining a doctorate in Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Her younger brother is Frank Ching, (Chinese: 秦家骢; pinyin: Qín Jiācōng), a journalist for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the South China Morning Post.
Lee Chair of Chinese Thought and Culture, elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and named to the Scholars' Council of the U.S. Library of Congress.
In it she described her perceptions of being an Asian woman in male-dominated Western academia, of striving for spiritual discipline in the religious orders and of seeking healing and meaning in life as a three-time cancer survivor.