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Florence Fang (Chinese: 方李邦琴; born 1933/1934) is a Chinese-American businesswoman, publisher, and philanthropist active in the San Francisco area. She is the former owner of the San Francisco Examiner and other media titles and has been a fund-raiser for the Republican Party .
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The house consists of purple and red domes, surrounded by statues of Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and other characters from the iconic cartoon.
The house was unpopular with some neighbors, and inspired the formation of a local architectural review board. In March 2019, the town of Hillsborough filed a complaint against the current owner of the house, Florence Fang.
In 1959, Fang returned to the West Coast and published the San Francisco and Los Angeles editions of the Chinatown Handy Guide. After launching all four books, Fang returned to Taiwan as a successful publisher and entrepreneur, and married his wife Florence Fang, before the couple returned to America and John began working in the newspaper ...
The San Francisco Independent was the largest non-daily newspaper in the United States. [4] It helped to popularize the free newspaper (advertising supported) as a business model at the beginning of the 21st century, [5] and also rescued one of the city's two major daily newspaper, the afternoon / evening San Francisco Examiner (founded 1863, and purchased 1880 by U.S. Senator George Hearst ...
John Ta Chuan Fang (Chinese: 方大川; pinyin: Fāng Dàchuān; Wade–Giles: Fang Ta-ch'uan; 27 May 1924 – 27 April 1992) was an American businessman, publisher, and writer based in San Francisco. He was the founder of Chinatown Handy Guide and AsianWeek.
James Fang, AsianWeek President 1993-2009. AsianWeek was the largest and longest established English-language newsweekly for Asian Pacific Americans. [8] In 1965, after the Hart-Celler Immigration Act ended over 80 years of race-based exclusion of immigrants from Asia, the United States for the first time experienced an influx of Asian immigration. [9]