North China Daily News
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North China Daily News (Chinese: 字林西報; pinyin: Zìlín Xībào) was an English-language newspaper in China called the most influential foreign newspaper of its time.[1]
The paper was founded as the weekly North China Herald (北華捷報 Běihuá Jiébào) by British auctioneer Henry Shearman (奚安門 Xī Ānmén) and was first published on 30 August 1850 in Shanghai. At that time, the British perspective held that Guangdong was southern China while the Yangtze valley and northward was northern China. Shearman died in 1856 and on 1 June 1864, the name of the paper was changed to the North China Daily News.
The newspaper was an influential force in Shanghai and throughout China with an editor-in-chief Edward Selby Little (李德立 Lǐ Délì) being elected three times to the Shanghai Municipal Council and its circulation peaked at 7,817 copies. In 1901, the paper was purchased by a British Catholic real estate developer of Jewish descent, Henry E. Morriss (馬立斯 Mǎ Lìsī). In 1924, the newspaper moved into headquarters the new North China Daily News Building at Number 17 in the Bund, then the tallest building in Shanghai.
On 31 March 1951, the North China Daily News suspended publication at the orders of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and the North China Daily News Building was seized by the People's Republic of China Shanghai municipal government.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Xiaoqun Xu. Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shangahai, 1912–1937 Cambridge University Press, 2001. p. 45. ISBN 0521780713
[edit] Other references
- Pan Haixia. "Witness to history." Shanghai Star. 20 November 2003. Retrieved 5 June 2008.
[edit] External links
- "The English-language Newspaper scene, 1930s" An excerpt from Sin City, by Ralph Shaw, a British journalist who worked for the North China Daily News
