There is talk that Hong Kong's South China Morning Post which sells 8,000 papers in China in addition to more than 130,000 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, would like to start a North China Morning Post. At the moment the upscale market here is left to the Morning Post, Hong Kong Standard, Strait Times of Singapore, International Herald Tribune, Asian Wall Street Journal and Financial Times all of which arrive in the afternoon by air.
The prospect a fat, saucy Shanghai Star under every expatriate's villa, apartment or hotel room door each morning sends shivers of anticipation along the spines of marketers here of everything from automobiles to hair spray to financial instruments and furrows to the brows of Party Propaganda Department hacks who would have to deal with inevitable liberalization in the news, arts and culture columns. (2)
Allow me to include here some scrapbook clippings:
Shanghai Foreign Language Daily Newspapers - 1934
North China Daily News (English) 17 The Bund
Shanghai Times (English) 180 Avenue Edward VII
Evening Post and Mercury (English) 17-21 Avenue Edward VII
China Press (English) 11 Szechuan Road
Le Journal de Shanghai (French) 21-23 Rue de Consulat
Deutsche Shanghai Zeitung (German) Astor House
Shanghai Zaria (Russian) 774 Avenue Joffre
Slovo (Russian) 238 Avenue du Roi
Source: All about Shanghai - A Standard Guidebook; Oxford University Press, 1934
My own nostalgic trip to 1937 Shanghai started at the Catnay Hotel. The era was subject of many books and motion pictures. "Was that Noel Coward just getting in the elevator?" you might have asked." Here is a postcard from Shanghai."
SHANGHAI, China - After a sumptuous lunch in the eighth floor Dragon-Phoenix dining room of the Peace (formerly Cathay, opened in 1929) Hotel I dozed in an overstuffed lobby chair.
