Cantopop

The Year of the Dragon and Chan is Missing both address the crisis of identity for Asian Americans and attempt to disprove the fixed notions that surround Asian Americans in society. In Chan is Missing, Wang seeks to illuminate that Asian American identity extends beyond the perpetuated stereotypes. Racial stereotypes are used as the basis of identity for Asian Americans. In their investigation into what happened to Chan Hung, Jo and Steve interview various individuals who Chan Hung encountered and every individual presented a different image of Chan, most of which were contradictory of one another. For instance, one individual characterizes Chan Hung not intelligent and unassimilated in American culture, but another individual commends Chan Hung’s intelligence for designing a word processing program in Chinese. These contrasting depictions of Chan Hung reveal the subjective nature of Asian American identity and the American societal attempt to categorize and assign a name to an individual. In reality, there is no definitive definition of Asian American identity because there are not certain characteristics one can label as Asian American. As a detective story, one has a set of expectations of what his or she will experience when watching the film. However, Wang deliberately avoids following the narrative of typical detective film. Rather than solving the solving the mystery and allowing the audience to know what really happened to Chan, Wang refuses to provide the audience…

The new forms of American music also played an important role in my parents’ assimilation into American culture. The mixture of these different forms of music symbolizes how my parents have assimilated and the process of assimilation. When my parents first arrived in America, they were dumbfounded by all the vibrant exuberance of American popular culture and music. Unlike the mundane Cantopop performances and styles, the popular American artists of the 1990s, such as Britney Spears and the…

conference that he tried to keep the HK’s lifestyle that would probably disappear in the near future (Lalanne 12). We are being shown the old district Wan chai but not tourist sites like Tsim Sha Tsui. In Wan chai, there are gambling houses that apart from the routine consumerist quality of HK. Even in the MTR, it becomes an empty public space that is far away from our general impression of Hong Kong as an overcrowded and fast-paced city. To see a city is not just limited to one way, the…