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	Jackie_Chan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chan is one of the most recognized names in kung fu and action movies worldwide, known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing and use of improvised weapons.
		Chan has starred in over a hundred movies, and is one of the most recognizable Chinese and Asian film stars in the world.
		Jackie Chan is the son of Charles Chan (a refugee from the Chinese civil war who worked as cook and housekeeper for the French ambassador to Hong Kong) and Lee-Lee Chan.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Jackie_Chan (879 words)

	Chan is Missing (USA 1982)
		Although Chan is Missing owes a clear debt to the detective tradition (Joe Friday, Jim Rockford, even Charlie Chan get name dropped in the film), Wayne Wang isn't a slave to formulaic mystery conventions.
		The Chinatown of Chan is Missing is not the exotic criminal underworld depicted in many Hollywood films, but is instead simply "home," a place where the Chinese are depicted not as one homogeneous mass, but a community of great complexity and differing viewpoints.
		Although the truth about Chan Hung remains elusive, my evaluation of the film will not be: Chan is Missing is one film that should not be missed.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/chan_is_missing.htm (672 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly - Chan Is Missing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Chan looks so utterly lost in The Medallion that it’s hard not to wonder if he has any idea what to do with himself now that time requires his body to obey the same laws of physics the rest of us have been operating under.
		Director Gordon Chan even gets desperate enough to have his characters cavort to “Twist and Shout,” the cinematic equivalent of shaking the audience by the shoulders and demanding that they at least pretend they’re having a good time.
		Chan’s affable personality has always been as much an element of his success as his fight choreography, yet in The Medallion he rarely appears to be having any fun.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2003/cnma_2_2003-08-28.cfm (670 words)

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		Each character in Chan Is Missing holds a doughnut that contains the possibilities for Chinese American identity in its center; each character glances in the puddle and takes one bite from the doughnut in an attempt to find his or her access to the center.
		Whereas each character fixes Chan Hung in an attempt to fix his or her own identity, the spectator is not allowed to occupy any one of these fixed perspectives but must instead negotiate all of them.
		Through this problem of missing identity, Feng proposes the Theory of the Doughnut is an attempt to discern why we can never know who Chan truly is, and as an extension, why we can never truly know what an Asian American is. Feng argues that identity is contingent; it is ever changing based on context.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~dantheman/misc/Midterm.txt (1440 words)

	Chan is Missing
		CHAN IS MISSING, directed by Wang, and written by Wang, Isaac Cronin and Terrel Seltzer, was produced in 1982 for a little more than $20,000.
		Wrapped in the complicated world of 1980’s international politics and domestic conflict, CHAN IS MISSING defied stereotypes perpetuated in Hollywood films and helped pave the way for realistic portrayals of Asian Pacific Americans.
		In CHAN IS MISSING, two Chinese American-born cab drivers, Jo (Wood Moy) and Steve (Marc Hayashi), search for Chan Hung, a friend who has disappeared with $4,000 loaned to him as an agreement to secure a cab license.
	www.vconline.org /ff04/chan.html (626 words)

	Wayne Wang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Hong Kong, he studied film and television at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
		Chan Is Missing (1982) and Dim Sum: a little bit of heart (1984) established his reputation.
		He is married to a former Miss Hong Kong, Cora Miu, and rumor has it that she once dated Chow Yun-Fat (her co-star in a then famous TV drama) the Hollywood movie star from Hong Kong, back in the seventies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayne_Wang (148 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Chan Is Missing at Epinions.com
		"Chan is Missing" is set in San Francisco, California’s Chinatown during the late 1970’s/early 1980’s.
		Chan, plus this also offers an air of authenticity to the concept of the actors being in their own little world within the greater area of a “foreign city”.
		Chan is an immigrant who had a lot of power and money when he lived in China, but after he moved himself and his family to San Francisco, he was unable to find the type of job that he used to have.
	www.epinions.com /content_131747188356 (1195 words)

	Sample Essay#2 for Race in US Cinema
		Chan is Missing, directed by Wayne Wang, and Glory, directed by Ed Zwick, both use racial stereotypes, but the way that they are constructed and utilized through narrative is quite different.
		Chan is Missing uses racial stereotypes to form a social commentary about the formation of an “Asian-American” culture and identity and how this identity is thrust upon its members.
		Chan specifically uses Steve and his ability to easily slip in and out of identities based on racial stereotypes to illustrate the fragmentation and duality of the Asian American culture (Feng, 103).
	faculty.washington.edu /kgb/engl345/sample2.html (1524 words)

	AsianWeek.com: A&E: Auteur Wayne Wang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		EM: I felt that Chan Is Missing was idiosyncratic and universal.
		I think sitting in Chan Is Missing with that audience brought back some of that feeling.
		When I made Chan Is Missing, I didn’t go in with a political agenda.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_08_10/arts_wang.html (1629 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: The Man from Elysian Fields, Chan is Missing, Half Past Dead, and Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
		His first film, Chan is Missing, is a glance at the same internationality that he found in his own life living in America.
		At its simplest level, Chan is Missing is a standard mystery with characters attempting to solve a missing person case (and, for the 'detectives,' retrieve $4,000 that has also disappeared).
		Peter Feng wrote in "Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing" of the way the film attempts to merge the two cultures and the way intercultural Americanism stands as the strongest attribute to Chan is Missing.
	xiibaro.hypermart.net /archive/04/49.html (1660 words)

	The Doe Network: Case File 997DFOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Missing since March 27, 1989 from Redmond, Deschutes County, Oregon.
		Angela Chan was reported missing by family members on March 29, 1989.
		Chan's husband, Bruce Chan, was in the military, and had dropped her off at their home, at 1565 SW Lava Avenue, the morning of March 27 before returning to his station.
	www.doenetwork.us /cases/997dfor.html (136 words)

	RANTOMAT: 12/01/2001 - 12/31/2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West is West made a great follow-up to Chan is Missing (1982); in color, and also set in the Bay area and homemade in feeling, its soundtrack featured music from Bombay movies of the day (1987).
		In the Rolling Stone issue devoted to George Harrison, Keith Richards is quoted as follows: "I draw the line at swamis." Speaking of quotations, the December Harper's magazine has a fantasia on "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" and casts suspicion on one or more of the Barthelme brothers, particularly Donald.
		Chan is Missing is truly greater than the sum of its parts: very big-city and ahead of its time in lots of ways.
	rantomat.blogspot.com /2001_12_01_rantomat_archive.html (1986 words)

	Chan Is Missing Film Review - Time Out Film
		The plot, such as it is, kicks off with the disappearance of one Chan Hung; the problem is that he had $4,000 in his pocket, belonging to Jo and Steve, two Chinese cab-drivers.
		Their search for Chan takes them to the heart of the fortune cookie: the tensions between Chinese and American identity (especially when there's a generation gap, as there is between Jo and Steve), the chasm between ABCs (American-Born Chinese) and FOBs (Fresh Off the Boats), the clashes between PRC patriots and renegade Taiwan loyalists...
		The missing Chan - almost certainly a descendant of Charlie Chan, but also a cypher for 'CHinese-americAN' - never turns up, although the missing money does.
	www.timeout.com /film/69067.html (370 words)

	chanismissing
		Chan is Missing is Wayne Wang's first feature film as a solo director.
		What seems at the start like a Charlie Chan detective story, instead turns out to be a search for a perspective on what it means to be Chinese-American in modern times.
		who is missing with $4,000 of their money they gave him to hold for a taxi medallion they intended to buy.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/chanismissing.htm (340 words)

	The Daily Californian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's fitting that this year's festival should revisit Wang's classic, a hilarious spin on the Charlie Chan pictures contorting the gumshoe flick into a scathingly witty investigation of cross-cultural dimensions among the Chinese diaspora in San Francisco's Chinatown.
		Part noir mystery, part theological rant, "Chan is Missing" is arguably the first real Asian American film, made for a mere $22,000, paving the way for other ethnic indie auteurs like Spike Lee and Jim Jarmusch.
		"Chan is Missing" (March 10, 3:00 p.m.) is one of seven feature films of the SFIAAF that Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive will host this weekend.
	www.dailycal.org /particle.php?id=7951 (572 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Chan Is Missing
		Cabdrivers Wood Moy and Marc Hayashi are robbed by the elusive Chan Hung (whom we never see in the film).
		Whether the two cabbies ever retrieve their lost loot is immaterial; the film is a mood and character piece, seasoned with unexpected moments of laughter.
		Chan is Missing became a sleeper on the arthouse circuit, a fact that would open many professional doors for the multi-talented Wayne Wang.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/5711/plot.jhtml (169 words)

	Wayne Wang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He returned to the US and scraped together $22,000 to complete "Chan is Missing" (1982), a hip, Zen-inspired San Francisco detective story which also carefully dissected prevailing Oriental stereotypes.
		Chan Is Missing - (Director / / Released / New Yorker Films)
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	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/195516 (579 words)

	Movie Archives: Chan Is Missing \| www.sdreader.com
		We are free, of course, to see in the title an allusion to that famous fictional representative of the Chinese people, Charlie Chan, and to interpret the title as a somewhat less provocative version of "God Is Dead." We are, in fact, encouraged to do so by three explicit mentions of that personage.
		But there is also an actual Chan in the movie, or rather, not in the movie, inasmuch as he has disappeared, along with several thousand dollars he owes to his two partners in the Wing-On cab company.
		This is partly because of the Oriental inscrutability of the case, and partly because of the unlikeness of the two detectives to Charlie Chan.
	www.sdreader.com /php/mvdisplay.php?&id=CHANISMI (360 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Life is Cheap . . . But Toilet Paper is Expensive \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		But those familiar with Wang's other films — "Chan Is Missing," "Dim Sum" and "Eat a Bowl of Tea," which are all delightful, controlled semicomic examinations of Chinese-Americans caught between two cultures — are in for a shock.
		Like Wang's first film, "Chan Is Missing," "Life Is Cheap" takes on the comic cloak of the '40s film noir detective formula.
		The story has a young, nameless American, who fancies Western duds and whose heritage is half Chinese and half Japanese, taking a job as courier to Hong Kong, where he is to deliver a mysterious metal suitcase to a big-time gangster.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1043,00.html (434 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine
		Keka is determined to reap the revenge of her boyfriend's murder.
		As two Chinese-American born cab drivers search for their friend, Chan Hung, in Wayne Wang's "Chan is Missing," viewers are left on a search of their own.
		From the lush plains of the Yunnan province to the mountains of Tibet and Mongolia, CCDC takes audiences on a path of traditional Chinese dances.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /040507 (290 words)

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		Chan Chan, ruins of an ancient city near Trujillo, N Peru.
		Chan Chan is generally accepted as the capital of the
		It is on a large plain of the coastal desert, which was made arable by extensive irrigation works.
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	Metroactive Movies \| Asian American Film Festival
		What better evidence to show that Asians have "made it" in Hollywood than the success of Jackie Chan.
		Chan's success is a signal that Asian Americans have "arrived," right?
		The festival is also loaded with special premieres: a Sessue Hayakawa retrospective; a special block highlighting Korean and Hong Kong cinema; and the annual late-night collection of bizarre shorts, Asians From Uranus, sponsored by Giant Robot magazine.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.06.97/asian-film-9710.html (622 words)

	Asians/Asian Americans in Film and Television: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Through interviews with Jackie Chan and other modern Asian men, thisprogram examines the way identities are shaped by the media, history andcultural legacy and considers to what extent reductive stereotypes, such asthe Yellow Peril and the martial arts master, distort reality.
		The role of Wayne Wang's film "Chan is missing" in forging a contemporary sense of identity for Asians living in the USA.
		W.W. comments on the making of his film "Chan is missing", and his plans for future projects.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/imagesasiansbib.html (4935 words)

	Film Threat - Film Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		2001 marks the 20th Anniversary of Wayne Wang's groundbreaking debut feature CHAN IS MISSING (USA, 1981), widely regarded as one of the pioneering landmark films that helped launch the independent filmmaking movement and open doors for future generations of Asian American directors.
		CHAN IS MISSING is the story of two Chinese cabbies in San Francisco's Chinatown who search for a mysterious character who has taken off with their $4000.
		Although HK action cinema has become a pop phenomenon in the States, it is the wacky, off-the-wall comedies that have continually dominated the HK box office.
	www.filmthreat.com /FilmFestivals.asp?Id=528 (874 words)

	After Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chinese director Wayne Wang first made his impression with his minimal no-budget “Chan Is Missing”, finally gaining a reputation for insightful humanistic drama in the critically acclaimed “The Joy Luck Club”.
		One would have expected “Maid in Manhattan” to have some of the wildly comic touches or sprawling panoramic view of minority working classes of “Chan Is Missing” or the sweet melancholy of “The Joy Luck Club”.
		There is, however, one scene in the film when Marisa mentions she has a thing or two to say about the housing projects during the senator’s dinner.
	www3.sympatico.ca /gilbert.seah/reviews/maidinmanhattan.html (446 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two San Francisco cab drivers (played by Moy and Hayashi) have their savings stolen by the elusive "Chan Hung" and spend the rest of the film tracking him down.
		Along the way the film potently considers the problems with the generation gap among Chinese-Americans and conflicts between those Chinese from the mother country and those born in America.
		Its cleverness extends even to the film's title, with CHAN suggesting both Charlie Chan (and hence many of the stereotypes commonly held about the Chinese) and "CHinese-americAN".
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=12288 (150 words)

	Chan Is Missing (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Story of two cab drivers who go throughout Chinatown looking for a man named Chan who took their money and then disappeared.
		Unfortunately these are the only two good things about this film, which on the whole is very boring and heavy handed.
		The search for Chan is merely an excuse by director Wang to show how difficult it is for Chinese to assimilate into American society, how they are always looked upon as 'foreigners', and how all those 'great' opportunities aren't always there.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0083728 (514 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - WAYNE'S WORLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As digital filmmaking comes to the fore, the shaky-cam gimmick of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and the Dogma days of Lars von Trier seem to be overstaying their welcome.
		For director Wayne Wang (CHAN IS MISSING, THE JOY LUCK CLUB) shooting his new sexual drama THE CENTER OF THE WORLD entirely in the digital format was less a novelty and more a necessity.
		In order to create the barren, lost world of a lonely dot-comer (Peter Sarsgaard) and the stripper (Molly Parker) he hires to spend a weekend with him in Vegas, the digital medium provided an intimacy and realism to the film that couldn’t be achieved through standard 35mm film stock.
	www.ifmagazine.com /feature.asp?article=1111 (2486 words)

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