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Shanghai Express ad in The Film Daily, 1932. In 1931, China is embroiled in a civil war. Friends of British captain Donald "Doc" Harvey envy him because Shanghai Lily is traveling on the express train he is taking from Peiping to Shanghai. They tell him she is a "coaster", a "woman who lives by her wits along the China coast" (i.e., a prostitute).
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Jiefang Daily is the Party newspaper for the Shanghai committee of the CCP. After Shanghai was taken over by the People's Liberation Army from the Kuomintang government, the newspaper started publication on May 28, 1949, by continuing to use the name of the central government's former Party newspaper Jiefang Daily published in the communist ...
Police using pepper spray drove away demonstrators in Shanghai who called for Xi Jinping to step down and an end to one-party rule, but hours later people rallied again in the same spot.
The Beijing News, invested and run by Guangming Daily newspaper group and Nanfang Media Group, was the first to receive formal approval from the Chinese government to publish trans-regionally. Also Orient-Observation Weekly came out in Shanghai, its largest shareholder being the Beijing-based Xinhua News Agency.
This year’s celebrations in Shanghai, a year after the country’s COVID protests and amid ongoing economic hardship, seemed to take on extra political significance for some attendees.
Shanghai is rarely subject to direct hits from strong typhoons that generally make landfall further south in China. Yagi, a destructive Category 4 storm, roared past southern Hainan province last ...
Shanghai Xinbao (Chinese: 上海新报), also known as Shanghai Gazette [2] or Shanghai New Daily [3] or Shanghai Hsinpao [4] or Shanghai News, [5] was a commercial Chinese newspaper established in Shanghai in November 1861, [6] edited successively by Marquis L. Wood, John Fryer and Young John Allen, [7] which was based on the news reports translated from the North China Daily News.