''The Shanghai Herald'' was an English-language newspaper published in
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
,
China
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.
The editor of the ''Shanghai Herald and China Critic'',
Kwei Chung-shu, had graduated from the
University of Wisconsin
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.
Günther Lenhardt, a journalist from
Berlin
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,
Germany
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, established the ''Herald''.
[ He hired two journalists from ]Vienna
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, Austria
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, Ladislaus Frank and Mark Siegelberg, who had previously worked for the ''Shanghai Jewish Chronicle
The ''Shanghai Jewish Chronicle'' () was a Jewish newspaper operating in Shanghai, China. It was a German language newspaper that was originally published daily and later published weekly.Goldstein160
The paper opened on May 3, 1939. The German ...
''. Hartmut Walravens, author of ''German Influence on the Press in China'', said that despite the paper's establishment, "the ''Shanghai Jewish Chronicle'' remained the leading paper".[Walravens, p]
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''The Shanghai Herald'' and the ''Shanghai Journal'' formed an affiliation on March 1, 1946. The ''Herald'' began publishing a German supplement, called ''The Shanghai Herald / German Language Supplement''.[
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Content
One regular feature of the ''Herald'' was "Der Wochenslat" ("the weekly salad") by Kurt Lewin.[Eber, p]
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References
* Cornebise, Alfred Enile. ''The Shanghai Stars and Stripes: Witness to the Transition to Peace, 1945-1946''. McFarland, January 18, 2010. , 9780786447565.
* Eber, Irene. ''Voices from Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China''. University of Chicago Press
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, October 1, 2008. , 9780226181660.
* Walravens, Hartmut. "German Influence on the Press in China." - In: ''Newspapers in International Librarianship: Papers Presented by the Newspaper Section at IFLA General Conferences''. Walter de Gruyter
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History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
, January 1, 2003. , 9783110962796.
Also available at
(
the website of the Queens Library
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- This version does not include the footnotes visible in the Walter de Gruyter version
**Also available in Walravens, Hartmut and Edmund King. ''Newspapers in international librarianship: papers presented by the newspapers section at IFLA General Conferences''. K.G. Saur, 2003. , 9783598218378.
*Yung, Judy. "It is hard to be born a woman but hopeless to be born a Chinese" ''The Life and Times of Flora Belle Jan''." -- in: Edited by Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon, with Susan Armitage. ''Women Writing Women: The Frontiers Reader''. University of Nebraska Press
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, April 1, 2006. , 9780803273368.
Notes
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English-language newspapers published in China
Newspapers published in Shanghai