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Title: San Francisco Chinese-American magazine, only known copy Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: 1948 Description: Henry S. Louie, ed. East Wind, The Magazine Designed For The Chinese In America. Spring 1948 Quarterly. Volume 3, No. 3 (San Francisco). 6.5 x 8.5”, 25pp. In original pictorial wrappers. Rare. According to WorldCat, the only known copies of this quarterly magazine are held by the New York Public Library, those issues running from Sept. 1945 to Dec. 1947 (Vol. 3, No. 2), not including this issue, probably the magazine’s last. With: Chinese Digest, Vol. 6, No. 2-3, Double Number: April-June and July-Sept. 1940. (China Cultural Society of America, San Francisco, 1940) 39pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Also the last issue of this earlier San Francisco Chinatown magazine. Louie was an officer of the San Francisco Chinese YMCA. His magazine, a cheap production, reportedly grew out of a 1945 meeting of Chinese Christian youth. This issue includes a feature article on the Chinese community of Stockton, a young Chinese-American woman’s account of travels in China, and a supportive message from famed author Lin Yutang. By contrast, the last issue of the earlier “Chinese Digest”, another short-lived periodical (1935-1940) was a slick production, said to be “the first English-language Chinese journal”, founded and published by Chingwah Lee, one of the first successful Chinese-American actors in Hollywood and a local celebrity in San Francisco. Aimed at the “second generation” of Chinese-Americans, it features, in this final issues, several articles on art, including a study of “Chinese Artists in California.” Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276223