Editing Chan Is Missing (section)

==Release==
Wayne Wang's primary distribution goal was to have the film, "play at festivals and college campuses", and as one of the first Asian American feature films, audience reactions to it spanned a spectrum of responses, sometimes dependent on the ethnicity of the viewer. One Chinese American viewer claimed the movie was written for a white audience because "…there being so much explaining, so many footnotes..." says Lem. Also according to Sterrit we see that "…its initial audience has not been an ethnic one, Chinese viewers are being wooed through newspaper ads…" Furthermore, the Asians were ‘wooed’ to watch the film by the white reviewers who reviewed the movie in the Asian press, therefore raising questions about whom the film catered to. Peter X Feng believes the success of this movie was through "the art-house audiences and brought the Asian Americans into the theaters." He also states that "reviews in the Asian American press often simply advertise the screenings; but the lengthier reviews usually refer to how white reviewers see Chinese Americans and how Asian American texts are received by non-Asian audiences."<ref name="Feng">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1225719 "Becoming Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing"]. Retrieved 2014-12-14</ref>

Wang arranged for the film to be screened at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] (MoMA) where it premiered as part of the New Directors/New Films series on April 24, 1982.<ref name="afi" />