Printed at the height of Hankow’s treaty-port era, this 1932 Christmas supplement of the Hankow Herald from our collection depicts a city shaped by foreign concessions, international and local banks, and a distinctive blend of expatriate and Chinese urban culture along the Yangtze.
The Mei Foo Shield was the "monthly magazine published by the Standard Oil Company of New York in the interests of its Far Eastern Staff". More on SOCONY in our previous article here.