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East/West newspaper collection
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: East/West (Dong xi bao/東西報) newspaper collection
creator:
East/West Publishing Company, Inc.
Identifier/Call Number: M2073
Physical Description:
8 Linear Feet
(13 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1967-1989
Language of Material: Bilingual in English and Chinese.
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.
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.
Photographic research files and administrative files of the Marketing Director (The East West Research Files) housed at UC
Berkeley's Ethnic Studies Library.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Chinese Historical Society of America, 2015. Accession 2015-049.
[identification of item], East West newspaper collection (M2073). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
v.1(1967)-v.17(1983) were cataloged from the Emory M. Lee papers and are available for paging:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/486526
Stanford's East Asia Library also holds volumes 1-10 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6711907
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinese Americans -- History
Chinese American newspapers
East/West Publishing Company, Inc.