Editing Anthony B. Chan (section)

===Writings===
His first historical biography analyzed the magical life and relentless business pursuits of Li Ka-shing, the most famous Hong Kong deal maker and one of the richest people in Asia. ''Li Ka-shing: Hong Kong Elusive Billionaire''  [http://www.amazon.com/Li-Ka-shing-Kongs-Elusive-Billionaire/dp/0195900766] was published by Oxford University Press and MacMillan(1996).  

[[File:Anna_May_Wong_and_brother_Roger_Wong,_1934.jpg|200x|thumb|left|Anna May Wong and brother Roger Wong, 1934]]

Tony Chan’s scholarly film work includes ''Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961''(2003, 2007), [http://annamaywong1905.blogspot.ca/] [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810859098] [http://www.amazon.com/Perpetually-Cool-1905-1961-Scarecrow-Filmmakers/dp/0810859092/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361306594&sr=1-2] which chronicled the amazing life and hard times of the legendary Chinese American actor, Anna May Wong. 

New York-born,Hollywood actor, ''LUCY LIU'' recently bought the film rights to Perpetually Cool. She will play AMW. 

<b>Reviews for ''Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961'':</b>

Richard Corliss, ''Time Magazine''
[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1022536,00.html]

Robert Gottlieb, ''The New York Review of Books''
[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/jan/13/orientally-yours/?pagination=false]

Leslie Camhi, ''New York Times''
[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/movies/film-a-dragon-lady-and-a-quiet-cultural-warrior.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm]

Asian Affairs
[http://annamaywong1905.blogspot.ca/2008/01/asian-affairs-review_29.html]

Asia Pacific Arts, UCLA
[http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6590]

See Anna May Wong's memoir and last will and testament:

''Anna May Wong's Memoirs, Part 1''
[http://gingerpost.com/?p=2049]

''Anna May Wong's Memoirs, Part 2"
[http://gingerpost.com/?p=2076]

''Anna May Wong's Last Will and Testament filed February 28, 1961''
[http://gingerpost.com/?p=2081]

For chapter samples of Chan's biography of Anna May Wong, see:

[http://www.vmacch.ca/AC_Visual/Chan_Anthony/chan_perpetually_cool.pdf]

Chan’s other scholarly works include ''Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-1928'' (1982) [http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173244] [http://www.amazon.com/Arming-Chinese-Western-Armaments-1920-1928/dp/0774819901/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361306594&sr=1-4]. 

He wrote the classic,''Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World'' (1983)  [http://books.google.ca/books/about/Gold_Mountain.html?id=hwEVAAAAYAAJ] [http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol11no4/goldmountain.html].

In the book, he brought forth one of the most contentious issues in Chinese Canada.
(Were the Chinese "sojourners" or immigrants? Reprinted as "Orientalism" and Image Making: The Sojourner in Canadian History in the now defunct Journal of Ethnic Studies, Volume 9, Number 3 (Fall) 1981, 37-46).

Now reprinted and available online in Ginger Post [http://gingerpost.com/?p=2178].

In 2008, Tony Chan published the innovative ''Dao of Communication'' [http://www.amazon.com/Communication-Anthony-Chan-Nancy-VanLeuven/dp/0981325106/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361306594&sr=1-7], which he co-wrote with Nancy Van Leuven.

He is co-editor of ''People to People: An Introduction to Communications.'' Currently, he is writing a book length manuscript on immigrant nationalism in Chinese Canada where he is focused on 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, among others. Professor Chan was the founding editor of:   New Scholars - New Visions in Canadian Studies (Seattle). 
[http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~S3/?searchtype=t&searcharg=new+scholars%2C+new+vision&searchscope=3&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Xnew+scholars%2C+new+vision]
and co-founder of The Asianadian: An Asian Canadian Magazine (Toronto).
[http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~S3/?searchtype=t&searcharg=asianadian&searchscope=3&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tnew+scholars%2C+new+vision][http://asianadian.blogspot.ca/]  [http://ealuoft.blogspot.ca/2009/10/asianadian-asian-canadian-magazine.html]

In 1979, Tony Chan was the Halifax, Nova Scotia delegate in the ad hoc committee against CTV's W5 "Campus Giveway." He was also a founding member of the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC). See his essay on this important Canadian civil rights movement:
''30th September 1979 30th Anniversary of Chinese Canadian Activism.'' [http://gingerpost.com/?p=615]

In 2007, Chan returned to Toronto after wandering the earth for 25 years in Asia, the US, and Europe. His quest for enlightenment brought him home.