Jeffery Paul Chan

Jeffery Paul Chan
Born	Jeffery Paul Chan 1942
Occupation	author, scholar, professor, critic
Nationality	USA
Period	current
Literary movement	Asian American
Notable works	Aiiieeeee!

Jeffery Paul Chan (陈耀光) (born 1942) is an American author and scholar. He worked as a professor of Asian American studies and English at San Francisco State University and taught there for 38 years until his retirement.

Chan was a co-founder of the Asian American studies department at SFSU, and has twice served as first chair of the department. With Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong, Chan edited two editions of the groundbreaking anthology of Asian American literature, Aiiieeee!, which helped introduce Asian American authors as worthy of serious study. This quartet had formed the Combined Asian Resources Project (CARP) to accomplish this task, which helped reintroduce and posthumously republish older works by Asian American authors, such as John Okada's No-No Boy and Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, for which Chan penned a forward. Chan also coined the term racist love (with Chin) to express the ways Asians are stereotyped in overly-positive ways that are just as damaging as the negative stereotypes used against blacks, Latinos and Native Americans.

Bibliography

• Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974) (Editor, contributor)
• The Big AIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature (1991) (Editor, contributor)
• Eat Everything Before You Die: A Chinaman In The Counterculture (novel; 2004) Seattle: University of Washington Press
• A Night on Lead Mountain: Short Stories (1974), submitted for his Masters' Degree

References

See also: "Jeffery Paul Chan" By Deborah Owen Moore. IN: Asian American Writers. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen. Detroit, MI: Gale; 2005. pp. 24–29

See also

• List of Asian American writers