Eastwind Books of Berkeley has been serving the book reading community since 1982, with titles ranging from Asian American Studies and Asia Studies, to Martial Arts, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Language Learning (including Chinese Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, Khymer, and Korean)…and much more!
AAADSP’s very own Harvey Dong saved Eastwind in 1996, when it was set to close and become a beauty shop. A Berkeley man through and through (BA, PhD), Professor Dong is a veteran of the 1969 Third World Liberation Front, a student movement to establish Ethnic Studies. He taught some of the first classes in the Ethnic Studies Department, and today lectures on Chinese American history for AADSP.
Today Professor Dong runs Eastwind as a “labor of love.” While the physical store is now closed, the Eastwind Books of Berkeley online store continuously promotes and makes accessible a variety of Asian American books. Professor Dong also makes sure to include titles on American Indian, Cuban, Latino and African American themes because of his Ethnic Studies background. Eastwind supplies textbooks for many classes in the Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies and English departments at UC Berkeley, Berkeley City College, and Laney as well as a local acupuncture school. There is also a range of children’s books.
Visit Eastwind’s website for more information and to support an amazing community bookstore!