Ethnic Studies Week

Wayne Wang's 1982 film Chan Is Missing is the first major Asian American film. Filmed in black and white on a famously tiny budget in San Francisco, this classic film turns its story of two cab drivers looking for a missing friend into an allegory about the elusiveness of Chinese American identity, with a few nods to film noir and Charlie Chan along the way. Introduced by Professor Timothy Yu of Asian American Studies and followed by discussion.