This is one of the model ethnic community clinics in the U.S. It began more than thirty years ago, when the Chinese and other Asian immigrant and indigent population was growing. Once housed at the Asian Resource Center at 310 8th Street, Asian Health Services needed more space and found it at this former restaurant (Lantern) site at 8th & Webster Streets. Its staff of doctors and nurses speak multiple Asian languages and dialects.

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William Wong was born and grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown. He went on to a distinguished journalism career (The Wall Street Journal, Oakland Tribune, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer). He is the author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America (Temple University Press, 2001) and Images of America: Oakland’s Chinatown (Arcadia Publishing Co., 2004).

Visit his web sites, http://www.yellowjournalist.com and http://www.oaklandchinatownhistory.org