1972 headquarters boston massachusetts key people ling mei wong editor products newspaper number of employees three website www.sampan.org sampan is a newspaper based in chinatown in boston massachusetts . it is new england s only bilingual chinese and english newspaper . the newspaper was founded in 1972 by volunteers of the asian american civic association then known as the chinese american civic association ; its slogan is boston s oldest bilingual chinese english newspaper since 1972 . it is distributed throughout greater boston and covers news of boston s chinatown as well as the greater boston asian american community . a sampan is a flat bottomed wooden boat still used today in parts of southeast asia for fishing transportation or even habitation . it is a metaphor which symbolizes that this newspaper would bring news of the chinese community in both chinese and english around the city of boston providing a means to acquire information about the community to non english speakers as well as non chinese speakers . sampan primarily reports on the news of chinatown and asian americans of greater boston . as a free nonprofit newspaper sampan makes its profit almost entirely by advertisements . external links edit official website asian american civic association retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sampan newspaper & oldid 743297551 categories asian american culture in bostonnewspapers published in massachusettscultural history of bostonchinatowns in the united stateschinese language newspapers published in the united statesbilingual newspapersnon english language newspapers published in massachusetts navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 01 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view