Yau-Man Chan is da man on Survivor

Harry Mok
April 10, 2007

As my colleague Chuck Barney says in today's Contra Costa Times, Chan "has neither the knockout looks or sizzling youth of your typical TV star," attributes that the previous Survivor winner, Yul Kwon, has in abundance. But Chan, 54, an information systems director at UC Berkeley, is nevertheless leading the pack on the show.

We seem to be posting a lot about reality TV on this blog, and I think it's because the genre is giving Asian Americans a chance to be seen on the airwaves, for better or worse.

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Harry Mok

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Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.

Comments

Comments

tommy wrote on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 6:15pm
yau man.... i love your show it is aswome you rock you should have won in fiji if yo can answer me back
Jessi And Tina wrote on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 7:09pm
WE LOVE YAU-MAN I CANT BELIEVE HE DIDNT WIN DREAMZ SUCKS!!!! YAU-MAN FOR PREZZ
Dan wrote on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 10:23am
He got screwed.He should have won. I was disappointed with Dreamz and to some extent Earl.Yau didn't cheat, lie, trick, or anything like that and it would have been nice to see someone like him win.
Jan wrote on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 1:20pm
Now that I have gotten over the fact that Yau-Man lost the million dollars I can now say: May Karma come back and bite Dreamz in the ass real good. He has no integrity and that was evident throughout the show.
dennis1188 wrote on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 2:47am
dreamz will burn in hell!