Biggers’s Charlie Chan spawned an industry—four novels, forty-seven movies, a comic strip, a card game, a board game (the forerunner of Clue), a radio serial, and a 1970s TV series with a dog named ChuChu and a young actress named Jodie Foster voicing one of Chan’s ten children. Chan embodied the stereotype of the wise, industrious, somewhat asexual Chinese man, despite his many offspring. Wrote Biggers of Chan: “He walked with the light dainty step of a woman.”
