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Shen Bao
申报 (Shen Bao) was published in Shanghai from 1872 to 1949 and became one of the most important Chinese newspapers of its time. Founded by a British merchant and later run by Chinese owners, it covered politics, business, culture and city life, and carried pages of advertisements: houses to let, medicines, cinema programs, situations wanted. Because it ran for so long and so close to daily life, historians use it to reconstruct how Shanghai lived — rents, prices, crowding, the arrival of refugees during the war against Japan. Large libraries now hold it in digitized and searchable form. A newspaper is not neutral either. It reports what its editors thought worth printing, in the style of its day, and, as 苏小雨 points out, it may contradict what people remember.