Guide to the East/West newspaper collection M2073

Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2018
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


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.

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Related Materials

Photographic research files and administrative files of the Marketing Director (The East West Research Files) housed at UC Berkeley's Ethnic Studies Library.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Conditions Governing 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.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], East West newspaper collection (M2073). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Related Materials

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.

flat-box 1, Folder 1-2

Volume 1 1967

Scope and Contents

No. 2, 4-8, 10-12, 14-21, 23-25. Unbound.
flat-box 1, Folder 3-6

Volume 2 1968

Scope and Contents

No. 3-4, 6-32, 35-50. Unbound.
flat-box 2, Folder 1-3

Volume 3 1969

Scope and Contents

No. 1-17, 19, 21-23, 25-31, 34-37, 42-43. Unbound.
flat-box 2, Folder 4-5, flat-box 3, Folder 1-2, flatbox-large 10

Volume 4 1970

Scope and Contents

No. 2-3, 5-6, 8-18, 20, 27, part of 34, 35-37, 39-50. Unbound. Bound volume: complete.
flatbox-large 10

Volume 5 1971

Scope and Contents

Bound volume: complete.
flat-box 3, Folder 3

Volume 6 1972

Scope and Contents

No. 1-5, 26. Unbound.
flat-box 3, Folder 4, flatbox-large 11

Volume 7 1973

Scope and Contents

No. 26-27, 30-39, 42, 50. Unbound. Bound volume: complete.
flat-box 3, Folder 5, flat-box 4, Folder 1, flatbox-large 11

Volume 8 1974

Scope and Contents

No. 1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-18, 24-34, 36-37, 44, 48. Unbound. Bound volume: complete.
flat-box 4, Folder 2, flatbox-large 12

Volume 9 1975

Scope and Contents

No. 1-3, 5-9, 11-19, 21-24, 26-27, 32-39, 42-50. Unbound. Bound volume: complete.
flat-box 4, Folder 3, flatbox-large 12

Volume 10 1976

Scope and Contents

No. 1, 7, 8 and 27. Unbound. Bound volume: complete.
flat-box 4, Folder 4, flatbox-large 13

Volume 11 1977

Scope and Contents

No. 45 and 47. Unbound. Bound volume: complete.
flatbox-large 13

Volume 12 1978

Scope and Contents

Bound volume: complete.
flat-box 4, Folder 5

Volume 14 1980

Scope and Contents

No. 20 and 41. Unbound.
flat-box 4, Folder 6-7, flat-box 5, Folder 1

Volume 15 1981

Scope and Contents

No. 8, 10-17, 19-21, 25, 27-32, 34-37, 39-43, 45-50. Unbound.
flat-box 5, Folder 2-5

Volume 16 1982

Scope and Contents

Missing no. 13, 18. Unbound.
flat-box 6, Folder 1-4

Volume 17 1983

Scope and Contents

Missing no. 7 and 29. Unbound.
flat-box 6, Folder 5

Volume 18 1984

Scope and Contents

No. 43-51. Unbound.
flat-box 7, Folder 1-4

Volume 19 1985

Scope and Contents

Missing no. 9, 11-12, and 37. Unbound.
flat-box 7, Folder 5, flat-box 8, Folder 1-3

Volume 20 1986

Scope and Contents

Unbound: complete set.
flat-box 8, Folder 4-5, flat-box 9, Folder 1

Volume 21 1987

Scope and Contents

Missing no. 32, 38, 47. Unbound.
flat-box 9, Folder 2-3

Volume 22 1988

Scope and Contents

No. 7, 19, 25, 29, 31, 33-34, 36. Unbound.
flat-box 9, Folder 4

Volume 23 1989

Scope and Contents

No. 7, 19, 25, 29, 31, 33-34, 36. Unbound.
flat-box 9, Folder 5

Miscellaneous pages 1978-1980 1984-07-25

flat-box 9, Folder 6

Asian Week Volume 3, Number 28 1982-03-11