Why The Asianadian?<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2025\/05\/1STASIANADIAN_S.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nIt\u2019s simply fun to look at this magazine! Pick any issue. Look at it from cover to cover. Leaf through it page by page. Especially if you\u2019re of the digital generation, having little experience with print magazines, you\u2019ll learn about and be fascinated by this vintage form of entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nNotice the price on the cover. The first issues cost $1 per issue, $4 per year for individual subscribers, $6 for institutional (library) subscribers! All prices included postage. That\u2019s right, the magazine was physically delivered.<\/p>\n<\/div>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2025\/05\/ASIANADIAN_SUBSCRIPTION.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe magazine covered historical, political, cultural and down-to-earth real-life topics that were relevant to to Canadians, not just limited to Asian-Canadians. For an example, browse the Spring 1980 issue on the theme of \u201cQuebec”. <\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThe editorial, written in English and French, discusses the soon-to-be-held Quebec referendum, the French Nationalism that originates from the historical discrimination against French Queb\u00e9cois as minority in Canada, and the lessons that minorities, including Asianadians and Asiab\u00e9cois, can learn from French Queb\u00e9cois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201c\u2026Whatever the outcome of the referendum, the current national consciousness will continue to grow as long as racial inequality perpetuates. French Quebecers have an historical duty to emancipate themselves from the yoke of injustices\u2014just as Asianadians and Asiab\u00e9cois have an historical duty to fight for equality and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\n\u00ab Il adviendra, un jour, que toutes les nations vont, ensemble, s\u2019unir contre les conditions, la haine et le pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s qui oppos\u00e8rent leurs anc\u00eatres les uns contre les autres. En attendant ce jour, c\u2019est notre devoir \u00e0 nous tous de continuer chacun nos luttes n\u00e9cessaires et compl\u00e9mentaires. \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The Asianadian<\/em> @ McGill Libraries<\/h2>\n\n\n\nAll twenty-four issues<\/a> of The Asianadian <\/em>are available for download on the publisher\u2019s website. You can also look at print copies of nineteen issues<\/a> held at Rare Books and Special Collections. (*Our special thanks to Philip Cheong, a native Montr\u00e9aler and McGill alumnus, whose generous gift enabled the McGill Libraries to purchase these rare items!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Asian Canadian magazine, The Asianadian, was published from 1978 to 1985. It was described as a \u201cprogressive magazine\u201d that \u201cunited Asian Canadian communities, and gave them the opportunity to cultivate a sense of cultural identity and political consciousness\u201d. … Continue reading
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nIt\u2019s simply fun to look at this magazine! Pick any issue. Look at it from cover to cover. Leaf through it page by page. Especially if you\u2019re of the digital generation, having little experience with print magazines, you\u2019ll learn about and be fascinated by this vintage form of entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notice the price on the cover. The first issues cost $1 per issue, $4 per year for individual subscribers, $6 for institutional (library) subscribers! All prices included postage. That\u2019s right, the magazine was physically delivered.<\/p>\n<\/div> The magazine covered historical, political, cultural and down-to-earth real-life topics that were relevant to to Canadians, not just limited to Asian-Canadians. For an example, browse the Spring 1980 issue on the theme of \u201cQuebec”. <\/p>\n\n\n The editorial, written in English and French, discusses the soon-to-be-held Quebec referendum, the French Nationalism that originates from the historical discrimination against French Queb\u00e9cois as minority in Canada, and the lessons that minorities, including Asianadians and Asiab\u00e9cois, can learn from French Queb\u00e9cois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026Whatever the outcome of the referendum, the current national consciousness will continue to grow as long as racial inequality perpetuates. French Quebecers have an historical duty to emancipate themselves from the yoke of injustices\u2014just as Asianadians and Asiab\u00e9cois have an historical duty to fight for equality and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n \u00ab Il adviendra, un jour, que toutes les nations vont, ensemble, s\u2019unir contre les conditions, la haine et le pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s qui oppos\u00e8rent leurs anc\u00eatres les uns contre les autres. En attendant ce jour, c\u2019est notre devoir \u00e0 nous tous de continuer chacun nos luttes n\u00e9cessaires et compl\u00e9mentaires. \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n All twenty-four issues<\/a> of The Asianadian <\/em>are available for download on the publisher\u2019s website. You can also look at print copies of nineteen issues<\/a> held at Rare Books and Special Collections. (*Our special thanks to Philip Cheong, a native Montr\u00e9aler and McGill alumnus, whose generous gift enabled the McGill Libraries to purchase these rare items!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first Asian Canadian magazine, The Asianadian, was published from 1978 to 1985. It was described as a \u201cprogressive magazine\u201d that \u201cunited Asian Canadian communities, and gave them the opportunity to cultivate a sense of cultural identity and political consciousness\u201d. … Continue reading <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Asianadian<\/em> @ McGill Libraries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n