Archive of Asian American History at Stanford

We are collecting stories and documents related to Asian Americans at Stanford, which will eventually become part of an online repository.

For example, did you know that a Chinese freshman was thrown out of the Encina Hall dormitory in 1918, when he tried to move into his room? Chinese merchants in the community fundraised to build a clubhouse, to house students who were unwelcome in campus dorms.

There are also many revealing anecdotes by Jane and Leland Stanford Sr. in a 2011 thesis by Julie Cain on “The Chinese and the Stanfords: Immigration Rhetoric in Nineteenth-century California”