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AsianWeek
''AsianWeek'' was America's first and largest English language print and on-line publication serving Asian Americans. The news organization played an important role nationally and in the San Francisco Bay Area as the “Voice of Asian America”. It provided news coverage across all Asian ethnic groups. ''AsianWeeks nature was reflected in its name -- both its weekly frequency and its focus on a pan-ethnic Asian identity, as the only all English publication serving the Asian community. ''AsianWeek'' was one of the newspapers owned and operated by the Fang family of San Francisco, with others including the San Francisco Independent and the San Francisco Examiner. It was founded by John Fang in 1979 and helmed by long-time ''AsianWeek'' President James Fang from 1993-2009. ''AsianWeek'' headquarters were located in San Francisco's Chinatown. It stopped publishing a weekly print edition in 2009, and on-line publication ceased in 2012. ''AsianWeek'' still publishes occasional specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fang
John Ta Chuan Fang ( 27 May 1924 – 27 April 1992) was an American businessman, publisher, and writer based in San Francisco. He was the founder of '' Chinatown Handy Guide'' and ''AsianWeek''. Early life Fang was born in Shanghai, China in 1924. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Taipei's National Chengchi University and worked their for the government-controlled ''New Life'' newspaper. In 1952, he moved to San Francisco to study at UC Berkeley. Career Fang started out on his own by publishing the '' Chinatown Handy Guide'' in 1959, a series of booklets to the Chinatowns in major US cities, as they were emerging as tourist attractions. In 1979, he founded ''AsianWeek ''AsianWeek'' was America's first and largest English language print and on-line publication serving Asian Americans. The news organization played an important role nationally and in the San Francisco Bay Area as the “Voice of Asian America”. ...'', and its headquarters were in San Francisco's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Guillermo
Emil Guillermo is an American print and broadcast journalist, commentator and humorist. His column, "Emil Amok", appeared for more than 14 years in ''AsianWeek''—at one time, the most widely read and largest circulating Asian American newsweekly in the U.S. The column has now migrated to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site blog. Early life and education Born in San Francisco, Guillermo is an alumnus of Harvard University, where he studied history and film, and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon. He delivered the Ivy Oration as class humorist in 1977. Career From 1989-1991, he was host of NPR's "All Things Considered." He was the first Asian American male, and first Filipino American, to host a regularly scheduled national news broadcast. He has also worked as a television reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. He has hosted his own radio talk show in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Sacramento. His writing and commentary has been widely p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinatown Handy Guide
The ''Chinatown Handy Guide'' was one of the early Chinatown tour books published by a Chinese American author anWorldCat, World Catalog. It was published in four different geographic editions tailored to the largest established Chinatowns in America's biggest cities: Chinatown Handy Guide Chinatown, Manhattan, New York, Chinatown Handy Guide Chinatown, Chicago, Chicago, Chinatown Handy Guide Chinatown, San Francisco, San Francisco and Chinatown Handy Guide Chinatown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (in order of publication). In addition, there were four sister books that promoted tourism for the Chinatown's in Cleveland,:File:ClevelandChinatownGuide.jpg, Retrieved 23 June 2018 Sacramento, Seattle, and Stockton, California, Stockton Pioneering newspaperman John T.C. Fang published all the ''Chinatown Handy Guides'' through his company Chinese Publishing House, and he served as Editor and Publisher for each of the books. Fang went on to start ''AsianWeek'', the first and largest English la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |