San Francisco Chinese Newspaper

San Francisco Chinese Newspaper

Chinese immigration
Newspaper
San Francisco
California
China news
Chinese characters

This copy of a 19th Century newspaper was donated by the Tein family who owned an original. The newspaper was written in Chinese and gives a sense of lifestyle that the Chinese lived within California at the time due to the contents of the newspaper. There are a descriptive translation of what the newspaper contains as it is printed in Chinese. The translation explains that there is an advertisement for liquor as well as advertisement of a cure of how to stop drinking liquor. This says that Americans wanted them to buy their alcohol but not to get drunk and disruptive. There is also adverts for an attorney and medical treatment. The need for an attorney is linked to the legal discrimination the Chinese faced in California in the 19th Century. The advertisement of medical treatment does suggest there is a set standard of living for them at the time.

San Francisco China News, Bogardus & Gordon Proprietors

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.

http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese_Newspapers.html

26 December 1874

Sarah Smith

Tein Family Collection, “The Oriental Chinese Newspaper” War Kee, Proprietor

Original in Chinese
Translation in English

Textual - printed newspaper

19th century California