Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- East/West Publishing Company, Inc.
- Extent:
- 8 Linear Feet (13 flat boxes)
- Language:
- English and Bilingual in English and Chinese.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], East West newspaper collection (M2073). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Copies of issues throughout the history of publication, including 8 complete sets in bound volumes. Some issues missing, some incomplete. Numbering occasionally repeats or skips. Includes one copy of Asian Week newspaper dated March 11, 1982.
- Biographical / historical:
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East-West (sometimes printed East/West, also Dong xi bao/東西報 in Chinese) was a San Francisco Chinatown-based English/Chinese bilingual newspaper founded by editor/publisher Gordon Lew (also a professor at the City College of San Francisco) that ran weekly from 1967 to 1989. Most of its articles covered issues affecting the Asian diaspora, primarily Chinese, in Chinatown, America, and internationally.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of the Chinese Historical Society of America, 2015. Accession 2015-049.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], East West newspaper collection (M2073). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022