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Anthony
B. Chan | An accomplished scholar, teacher, academic leader,
filmmaker, journalist, and writer, Anthony B. Chan is Professor
and Associate Dean of Communication in the Faculty of Education
at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa,
Ontario.
Born and raised in Victoria,
British Columbia, Professor Chan returned to Canada after serving
as the Chair of the bachelor of Arts and master of Arts degree
programs in Canadian Studies and Director of the Canadian Studies
Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
and as an Associate Professor of Communication at the University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Before moving to the Pacific
Northwest in 1990, Tony Chan was an Associate Professor of Mass
Communication at California State University, Hayward. His family
has been in Canada since 1887 when his paternal grandfather immigrated
to Victoria.
Complementing his administrative
duties at the University of Washington, Tony was the Head of
Broadcast Journalism in the School of Communications at UW, and
the Assistant Coordinator of the CIDA-funded China Project Office
at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dr. Chan's scholarly film work
includes Perpetually
Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961 (2003, 2007)
(185 KB PDF file - Acrobat Reader required), which chronicled
the amazing life and hard times of the legendary Chinese American
actor, Anna May
Wong. He has agreed to a film option with Silver Dream Production
in Pasadena for a biopic of Anna May Wong, produced by Shanghai
film producer, Luo Yan.
His first historical biography analyzed the magical life and
relentless business pursuits of Li Ka-shing, the most famous
Hong Kong deal maker who sold Star TV to Rupert Murdoch. Li is
also well known for his purchase of Husky Energy and the Expo
㥞 lands as well as a stake in Facebook. Li
Ka-shing: Hong Kong Elusive Billionaire was published by Oxford
University (1996). In March 2007, Alpha Books, Hanoi, People's
Republic of Vietnam translated this biography into Vietnamese.
Professor Chan's other scholarly
works include Arming
the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-1928
(1982) and Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World (1983).
The latter examined Chinese immigration and settlement in Canada
from 1850 to 1979. In 1997, he co-edited People to People: An
Introduction to Communications. Tony is currently writing a book
length manuscript on immigrant nationalism in Chinese Canada
where he is especially examining the impact of such social network
systems as Facebook on family bonds and the pervasiveness of
cyber crime on this ethnic nation in Canada.
His articles can be found in
Asian Affairs, Cinemaya, Gazette, Journal of European Economic
History, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Canadian Ethnic Studies, Adult Education, Asian Profile, and
Army Journal and Defence Quarterly. He has written for Snoecks
(Ghent, Belgium) and the Globe and Mail. Tony Chan was the founding
editor of New Scholars-New Visions in Canadian Studies, Seattle
and co-founded The Asianadian: An Asian Canadian Magazine, Toronto.
In addition to his traditional
undergraduate and graduate teaching in digital media and journalism,
documentary filmmaking, cinema studies, Asian Canadian media,
and intercultural, international, and mass communication, Professor
Chan's teaching expertise includes mentoring many doctoral students
online. Since 1992, he has been an adjunct supervisor of doctoral
and EdD students in Education and doctoral students in Applied
Management and Decision Sciences at Walden University. He has
also mentored doctoral students in Business at Capella University.
As a filmmaker, Tony Chan's independent films include a four
part series on Asian
Americans and Vietnam: 'Lily Goes Home' (2007), 'The Insanity
of it All' (2002), 'Sweet Heat' (1998), and 'American Nurse'
(1992).
The latter was shown at film
festivals in Hiroshima, New York, Olympia and aired on PBS, KCTS-TV
in Seattle. This film showcase was recently reviewed in Northwest
Asian Weekly.
Chan has also produced films
focusing on work, culture, and survival in North America. They
were 'The Panama' (1996), 'Another Day in America' (1989) profiling
Japanese American women artists and jazz musicians and the original
'Chinese Cafes in Rural Saskatchewan' (1985).
Before entering academic life,
Chan was a Senior Producer and a television journalist at Television
Broadcasts Ltd., Hong Kong, where he managed a television production
unit and anchored 'Focus', a 30-minute English language public
affairs show on the Pearl channel. He produced more than 30 documentaries
and anchored about 100. He also worked as a supper hour television
reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Edmonton,
Saskatoon, and Calgary. At CBC Regina, he hosted and narrated
several episodes of 'The
Canadians'.
Dr. Chan's degrees include
a PhD in Modern Chinese History from York University, Diploma
in Chinese from the Beijing Language Institute, master of Arts
degrees from Bowling Green State University and the University
of Arizona, and a bachelor of Arts degree from the University
of Victoria.
Some say that Tony is noted
for his delicious recipes
of poached chicken and honey garlic spareribs.
Links for Anthony Chan
Ginger Post
Tony was one of the principal actors in setting up Ginger Post
<http://gingerpost.com>.
Ginger Post is an online magazine for and about Chinese Canadians,
Chinese Overseas in other parts of the world, and to a lesser
extent Asian Canadians. The editors and writers at Ginger Post
have long recognized that virtually all media reports on events
and issues that might be of interest of the Chinese Canadians
are presented in Chinese.
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