Charlie Chan, the wise and strategically polite Chinese detective given to pseudo-Confucian aphorisms, came to life on the pages of six popular novels and flourished in a remarkable run of 47 ...

Action speak louder than French. Door of opportunity swing both ways. Smart fly keep out of gravy. Tongue often hang man quicker than rope. All gems of fortune-cookie-worthy wisdom spoken by Charlie ...

Who under the age of 50 remembers Charlie Chan? Like his more bloodcurdling kinsman, Dr. Fu Manchu, and like Stepin Fetchit, Amos and Andy, and many other racial stereotypes who once populated ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When Warner Oland died in 1938, 20th Century Fox wasn’t about to lose one of its most lucrative products, so they quickly replaced ...

The revival of a 42-year-old documentary on the fictional Chinese detective Charlie Chan has reignited the controversy surrounding that character specifically and, more generally, the portrayal of ...

Yunte Huang's "Charlie Chan," which hit bookstores this week, looks at the real-life roof-jumping, opium den-busting cop upon whom the book and movie character was based, and it explores how the ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When the studio ran out of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan novels to film, the solution was to place the character in new stories ...

Singaporean artist Sonny Liew's award-winning graphic novel, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, will have a three-site ...

The fictional, aphorism-spouting Chinese detective is best known today as a stereotypical relic from a less sensitive time. Yunte Huang tells the... Investigating The Real Detective Charlie Chan ...

“To many Asian-Americans, Charlie Chan is an offensive stereotype, another sort of Uncle Tom,” said Charles McGrath in The New York Times. “Pudgy, slant-eyed, and inscrutable,” the fictional Honolulu ...