Shen Bao

申報 (formerly 申江新報)
Shanghai News (Shen Pao)
TypeCommercial Newspaper
Owner(s)Ernest Major, Shi Liangcai, Norwood Allman
Founder(s)Ernest Major
Editor Qing dynasty Jiang Zhixiang, He Guisheng, Qian Xinbo, Huang Shiquan  Republic of China Chen Leng, Zhang Yunhe, Norwood Allman
Founded30 April 1872 (1872-04-30)
Political alignmentConservatism
LanguageChinese
Ceased publication27 May 1949 (1949-05-27)
HeadquartersSongjiang, Shanghai, Qing empire
Shanghai, China
Shen Bao
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese

Shen Bao (Chinese: 申報; pinyin: Shēn Bào), officially transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao, known in English as Shanghai News, was a newspaper published from 1872 to 1949 in Shanghai, China. The name is short for Shenjiang Xinbao, Shenjiang being a short form of Chunshen Jiang, the old name for the Huangpu River.[1]

The influence of the newspaper in early 20th century Shanghai was such that Shen Bao zhi, literally "Shen-pao paper", became a generic term for newspaper or newsprint.[2]

  1. ^ Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese History: A Manual, Revised and Enlarged (Harvard University Asia Center, 2000: ISBN 0-674-00249-0), p. 967.
  2. ^ 蔣遵和 (Jiang Zunhe), “拿張申報紙來”是什麼意思 Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine (What does "bring a sheet of Shen Pao paper mean"?), Shanghai Municipal Archives (re-published by EastDay).

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