Office: CMU 229
Phone: 685-3992
E-Mail: chanant@u.washington.edu

A former television journalist, producer, and anchor, Anthony B. Chan's research interests include globalization, media and culture and Asian media, especially the politics of Chinese communication race. He is also invested in digital media, race, gender and power in Asian American media, Canadian popular culture and communication, and media revolutions.

His fifth book was published in October, 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield's Scarecrow Press in its Filmmakers Series. Race, gender, power and media in Asian America are examined through the career of Chinese American film icon and Hollywood legend, Anna May Wong (1905-1961).

Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961 was reviewed by Robert Gottlieb in a January 2005 issue of the New York Review of Books. He is currently writing a screenplay of Anna May Wong's life.

Professor Chan has also written Li Ka-shing: Hong Kong's Elusive Billionaire (1996) published by Oxford University Press. Li founded Star TV, later purchased by Rupert Murdoch.

His other books are Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World (1983), Arming the Chinese: The Westerm Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-1928 (1982), and People to People: An Introduction to Communications (1997), edited with colleague, Kathleen Fearn-Banks.

He is presently researching Yellow Movies, Escape from Exclusion, and Five Media Revolutions.

Tony Chan's articles can be found in Cinemaya, Gazette, Journal of European Economic History, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Canadian Ethnic Studies, and Asian Profile. He has authored numerous book reviews and many commentaries. The founding editor of New Scholars-New Visions in Canadian Studies, he also contributes to the Globe & Mail, Toronto, and Snoecks, Ghent Belgium.

In addition to serving in the regular degree programs, he teaches and advises students in the M.C. in Digital Media program. He taught the first course in digital journalism at UW.

Before beginning an academic career in communication, Dr. Chan was a broadcast journalist at Television Broadcasts Ltd., Hong Kong and a television reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

As an independent filmmaker, his work has been shown at film festivals in New York, Olympia, Toronto, and Vancouver.

American Nurse, the inaugural documentary of his four part series on Asian Americans and Vietnam won a Honorable Mention Award at the Hiroshima Film Festival on War and Peace in 1993. It also aired on PBS Seattle, KCTS-TV in 1993.