24. December 2025

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.

10. April 2021

Shen Bao, formerly transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao (Chinese: 申報), known in English as Shanghai News, was a newspaper published from 30 April 1872 to 27 May 1949 in Shanghai, China. The influence of the newspaper in early 20th century Shanghai was so great that Shen Bao zhi, literally "Shen-pao paper", became a generic term for newspaper or newsprint.