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The Shanghai News (1950–1952): New Democracy and External Propaganda in Early 1950s Shanghai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2020

Jonathan J. Howlett*
Affiliation:
University of York
*
*Corresponding author. Email: jon.howlett@york.ac.uk

Abstract

The Shanghai News was the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) first English-language newspaper. The News played an important, but forgotten, role in the development of the PRC's “external propaganda” apparatus, used to fight the ideological Cold War. The News was unusual in that it adopted a commercial business model and juxtaposed vehement anti-imperialist propaganda with advertising for multinational companies from “imperialist-capitalist countries.” This article argues that the News was a product of “New Democracy,” the central political paradigm of the PRC between 1949 and 1953. New Democracy, a policy of cross-class cooperation in the name of national reconstruction, is often dismissed as cynical tactic deployed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to diminish resistance during the takeover of China. The author argues for taking the real world impacts of New Democracy on life and work in early 1950s Shanghai seriously and cautions against teleological narratives.

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Jennifer Altehenger, Felix Boecking, Koji Hirata, and Sha Qingqing for their insightful comments on drafts, as well as to my colleagues Amanda Behm, Oleg Benesch, David Clayton, and Simon Ditchfield. The Journal of Chinese History’s two anonymous reviewers provided thoughtful advice, for which I am very thankful.

References

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21 SMA B37-1-29-39.

22 O'Keefe, M. Timothy, “The Moscow News: Russia's First English Language Newspaper,” Journalism Quarterly 50.3 (1973), 463–88CrossRefGoogle Scholar; The Moscow News was founded by Anna Louise Strong (1885–1970). From 1932, the editor was Michael Borodin (1884–1951), who had represented the Comintern in China. Both Strong and Borodin had close ties to the CCP, but it is worth noting that publication of The Moscow News was suspended between February 1949 and January 1956 for political reasons.

23 SMA B37-1-29-39.

24 Shen, “Yi xin Zhongguo.”

25 On the number of foreigners in Shanghai see Weiming, Zhou 周伟明 and Zhenchang, Tang 唐振常, eds, Shanghai waishi zhi 上海外事志 (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexueyuan, 1999), 334–35Google Scholar.

26 Zhou and Tang, eds, Shanghai waishi zhi, 49, 312–13; Hooper, China Stands Up, 143–45. New China News Agency: Xinhua tongxun she 新华通讯社.

27 “To Our Readers,” TSN, June 10, 1950.

28 SMA B37-1-32.

29 “7,000 Koreans Massacred in ‘Death Valley’—Bestial U.S. Imperialist Butchery,” TSN, August 11, 1950; “Int'l Scientific Commission Confirms U.S. Bacterial Warfare,” TSN, September 15, 1952.

30 “Bestial Crimes of U.S. Troops in Korea,” TSN, September 8, 1950; “Stay Hand of American Fascist Murderers,” TSN, September 10, 1950; “U.S. Invasion of Korea,” TSN, September 17, 1950.

31 “A GI Story,” TSN, March 18, 1951; “War Prisoners in Korea Calling,” TSN, May 3, 1951; “Greetings from Other POW's,” TSN, July 3, 1951.

32 “Support Iranians’ Fight for Oil Nationalization,” TSN, July 10, 1951; “Egyptians, be Resolute in Anti-British Struggle,” TSN, October 24, 1951; “National Liberation Movement in Colonies & Dependent Countries,” TSN, February 20, 1952.

33 TSN, June 18, 1950.

34 See for example, Song Qingling, “Shanghai's New Day has Dawned,” TSN, June 10, 1950.

35 “Fight of the Shanghai People in the Past Year,” TSN, October 22, 1950; “A New Step to Peace,” TSN, August 28, 1952.

36 TSN, May 28, 1951.

37 “In Celebration of the Army Day,” TSN, August 1, 1951.

38 “Just Received Fresh Trappist Cheese,” TSN, October 19, 1952; TSN, December 21, 1952.

39 One of the best-known cases of such behavior is Zheng Nian's account of sitting down to a breakfast of imported coffee and marmalade while Red Guards ransacked her house during the Cultural Revolution: Cheng, Nien, Life and Death in Shanghai (London: Grafton Books, 1987), 108Google Scholar; for more on elite lifestyles in “New China” see Hanchao, Lu, “Bourgeois Comfort under Proletarian Dictatorship: Home Life of Chinese Capitalists before the Cultural Revolution,” Journal of Social History 52.1 (2018), 74100Google Scholar.

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41 SMA B37-1-29, SMA B37-1-29-9.

42 SMA B37-1-29-24.

43 “Notice,” TSN, November 12, 1950. On the prohibition of foreign films see Hooper, China Stands Up, 150–57.

44 SMA B37-1-32: the official exchange rate was one US Dollar to 28,500 Renminbi in December 1950. TSN, December 21, 1950.

45 SMA B37-1-32, SMA S314-4-5-11.

46 SMA B37-1-29-9.

47 SMA B35-2-78-21, SMA A73-1-82-40. In the first seven months of 1952 the highest monthly circulation figure was 71,854 in January (average 2,318 daily) and the lowest was 59,004 in June (average 1,966 daily).

48 SMA B37-1-29-55.

49 SMA B37-1-29-20.

50 An American Shanghai resident described the News in a letter home as their “last remnant of ‘cultural breakfast food’” in National Archives and Records Administration (hereafter NARA), Washington DC, Record Group 59, Box 4203, 793.00/1-2253. On the availability of English-language reading material in the PRC see Volland, Nicolai, “Clandestine Cosmopolitanism: Foreign Literature in the People's Republic of China, 1957–1977,” The Journal of Asian Studies 76.1 (2017), 185210CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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53 For more on the International Bookstore (Guoji shudian 国际书店) see Ungor, “Reaching the Distant Comrade,” 206–20, 242–43; and Xu, “Translation and Internationalism,” 83–84.

54 SMA B37-1-29-39. “Nos 9 and 10 Bus Routes Adopt Winter Service Time,” TSN, November 15, 1950.

55 SMA B37-1-29-20. The newspaper was distributed widely within China, but not in great numbers: in north China, ninety-seven copies were sold in Beijing, forty-seven in Tianjin, four in Shanxi province and one in Inner Mongolia; in east China, forty-four copies were sold in Jiangsu province, thirty-seven in the city of Hangzhou, and thirty-seven in Shandong province, seventeen in Fujian, eight in Anhui and four in Jiangsu; in south and central China, forty-five copies were sold in the province of Guangdong, eighteen in Hunan, seventeen in Hubei, twelve in Guangxi and six in Henan; in the west, fourteen copies reached remote Gansu and two copies were purchased in Shaanxi; and in the southwest, twenty-one copies were sold in Sichuan province, four in Guizhou, and three each in Yunnan and Tibet.

56 SMA B37-1-29-39.

57 “Notice,” TSN, February 10, 1951.

58 SMA B37-1-28-15, SMA B37-1-29-24. The proportion of space devoted to advertising in the newspaper was 17 percent after the expansion.

59 SMA B37-1-22.

60 SMA B37-1-29-35. Dollar figures are derived from the official exchange rate printed in the News, fixed at 20,610 Renminbi to US$1 in the period between March 24 and May 22, 1951.

61 SMA B37-1-29-20. Northeast China Military Region: Dongbei junqu 东北军区.

62 SMA B37-1-29-20. If the News sold 261 copies every day in 1951 its annual overseas circulation would have been 81,432. To contextualize this number, the International Bookstore sold 670,000 periodicals overseas in total in 1951 (some of which may have included the News), these figures are from Ungor, “Reaching the Distant Comrade,” 254. The International Bookstore's overseas sales increased rapidly throughout the decade, reaching 7,520,000 in 1959.

63 SMA B37-1-29-20.

64 SMA B37-1-33.

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66 SMA B37-1-29-61.

67 SMA B37-1-22. Newspaper Affairs Committee: She wu weiyuanhui 社务委员会.

68 SMA A22-2-73.

69 SMA B37-1-33. Prisoner of War Management Department of the CPVA: Zhongguo renmin zhiyuanjun fuguanchu jiaoyuke 中国人民志愿军俘管处教育科. Two other CPVA organizations were also refunded: the Political Department of the Ninth Army of the CPVA (Zhongguo renmin zhiyuanjun di jiu bingtuan zhengzhibu 中国人民志愿军第九兵团政治部) (775 issues) and the Political Department of the CPVA (Zhongguo renmin zhiyuanjun zhengzhibu 中国人民志愿军政治部) (167 issues).

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73 “X'mas Festivities in POW Camp,” TSN, January 9, 1952.

74 “Introducing China Reconstructs,” China Reconstructs, 1.1 (1952). People's China was closed in December 1957 and replaced with the weekly news magazine Peking Review in March 1958, which is now published as Beijing Review. China Reconstructs later became a monthly magazine. It changed its name to China Today in 1990. On the Peking Review see Terrell, Robert L., “The First 25 Years of the Beijing Review, an official propaganda organ of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China,” Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands) 37:3 (1986), 191219CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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77 An index for 1953 listed thirty-two articles on economic topics, twenty-nine on social affairs, twenty-nine on culture, seven on “general issues,” six pictorials, six on postage stamps, and five on ethnic minorities. China Reconstructs 2.6 (1953).

78 Tse-Tung, Mao, “Don't Hit Out in all Directions,” June 6, 1950, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung: Volume V (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1977), 3336Google Scholar.

79 The College was founded in early 1950 as a sub-unit of the East China University of Political Studies and Military Science. O'Brien, An American Editor in Early Revolutionary China, 187. East China News College: Huadong xinwen xueyuan 华东新闻学院.

80 SMA B37-1-32, SMA S314-4-5-11.

81 SMA B37-1-29-39.

82 SMA B34-2-15. Central China University: Zhonghua daxue 中华大学.

83 SMA B34-2-15.

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86 SMA B34-2-15.

87 The biographical material in this paragraph is drawn from SMA B34-2-15 and Zhang Xitian 张锡田 and Qihe, Zhong 钟启河, eds, Hunanren zai haiwai (xia) 湖南人在海外(下) (Changsha: Yuelu, 2001), 665Google Scholar.

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90 SMA C43-2-303-32. Jin worked for TASS and USIA in 1932–33 and 1945–48, respectively.

91 “Yuan Shanghai shi fushizhang.”

92 SMA A22–-2-73, SMA B37-1-32. Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Bureau: Zhonggong Shanghai shiwei xuanchuanbu 中共上海市委宣传部; and Shanghai Foreign Affairs Department: Shanghai shi waishichu 上海市外事处.

93 Shen, “Yi xin Zhongguo.”

94 Dillon, “New Democracy and the Demise of Private Charity,” 80–81, 93–102.

95 SMA B35-2-112-1.

96 Zhang and Zhong, Hunanren zai haiwai, 665.

97 NARA RG 59, Box 4204, 793.00/4-753.

98 Zhang, “Thought Reform and Press Nationalization,” 52–80.

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100 “Notice,” TSN, December 28, 1950.

101 SMA B34-2-76.

102 Shen, “Yi xin Zhongguo.”

103 SMA B34-2-76. Foreign Languages Printing Press: Waiwen yinshuachang, 外文印刷厂.

104 Zhang, “Thought Reform and Press Nationalization,” 75–6.

105 “Song Qingling, huainian Jin Zhonghua—(Zhongguo Jianshe) de chuangshiren zhi yi” 怀念金仲华 《中国建设》的创始人之一, Renmin ribao, January 7, 1981.

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