- ANDREWS, VON FISCHERZ & GEORGE, LTD.
- MUSTARD & COMPANY
- CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.
- RACINE, ACKERMANN & CIE [SOCIETE ANONYME]
-
System/configuration of representations (P5)
- Page landscapes
-
Copy models
- Long descriptive text
- Realistic image of the package/product
- Easy to read trademark
- Play on typography
- Rare illustrations (peoples or lively scenes)
- No genuine title or slogan
- Except for enterprising American dailies, no effort to attract the reader, very austere and dull appearance of British and Chinese newspapers designed to meet old British standards , limited to "matter-of-fact" plain announcements
-
Discursive styles
-
Residual hyperbolic style
- Exaggeration
- Superlative tone
- Universal panacea (to cure everyone and everything)
-
Prominent rational style
- Royal or aristocratic patronage
- Warning against imitations
- Long educational and descriptive texts (reason-why copy)
-
Appeals
- Health
- Economy
- Safety
- Comfort
-
System/configuration of actors (P3, P4)
-
Advertising agents/professionals
-
No genuine advertising agencies in Shanghai (and China)
- No foreign agencies with branch offices in Shanghai or even China
-
A few pioneering Shanghai-based agencies
- A.G. Mink (China Advertising Company) (1905-1921) first call for a regulation and taxation of outdoor advertising, inspired by London and other Western cities (SMA)
- Oriental Advertising Agency (before 1912)
- Harvey Advertising & Billposting Agency (before 1914)
- China Publicity Company (1914)
- So-called advertising "agents" are simply brokers, often living a "hand-to-mouth" existence, or exclusively representing a few mediums
-
First full-service/integrated agencies were founded after 1919, directly derived from the WWI propaganda organizations and war information services (ComPub)
- Chun Mei News Agency (1918) (first devoted to translation and mere placement of advertisements from American companies in the Chinese press)
- Carl Crow, Inc. (1918): derived from Chun Mei News Agency, first full-service American advertising agency
-
Advertising/publicity departments of large companies
-
Press/Publishing companies
- North China Herald (1850)/Daily News (1864)
- Shenbao (1872)
- Oriental Press/Presse Orientale (1897)
- Commercial Press (1906)
- Large general import houses
-
Tobacco industry
- Briish-American Tobacco (1905)
-
Early Chinese pharmaceutical firms
- International Dispensary (1906) co-founded by HUANG Chujiu (黃楚九 )
-
Petroleum industry
- Standard Oil (1903)
-
Business sectors, advertised goods or services, advertisers and brandnames
-
Beauty/Appearance
- ANGLO-AMERICAN SHOE CO.
- HIRSBRUNNER & COMPANY
- STOKES & WOODS EXCLUSIVE TAILORS
- TAJIMA BROTHERS & COMPANY
- CHING WOO ZEANG
- MO CHEE
- AU CHIC PARISIEN [FLINT, MADAME M.]
- EASTERN DYEING AND DRY CLEANING CO. OF HONGKONG [THE]
- DAL SONG. & COMPANY [LUEN WO]
- ULLMANN & CO., J. [LAROCHE & CIE]
- WHITELEY & COMPANY
- ARTS AND CRAFT, LTD. [formerly ARTS & CRAFTS FURNISHING COMPANY, LTD, 1908-1909]
- DAL SONG. & COMPANY [LUEN WO]
- JAQUES & COMPANY, A.H.
- KU'EN KEE
- SHANGHAI FURNITURE FACTORY
- TUNG LEE & COMPANY
- WELLINGTON MILLS
- WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & COMPANY, LTD.
- HALL & HOLTZ, LTD.
- GIBB, JNO, MCGREGOR, JR.
- 三井鞋帽莊
- 鄭祥泰皮貨號
- 鳳祥新記銀樓
- 達興總公司
- 億德洋行
- 桃谷順天館
- 上海盆湯弄絲業會館
- 湖北氈呢公司
- 寗波江東後塘街餘通織襪公司
- North China Daily News
- Shenbao
-
Culture
- NORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD, LTD.
- TUNG-WEN TRANSLATION OFFICE
- BECHSTEIN (C.) PIANOFORTEFABRIK AG [BECHSTEIN]
- ROBINSON PIANO CO. LTD (THE) [Sole Agents]
- LAI CHONG [LAI CHONG PHOTO CO.]
-
JOSEPH GILLOTT [WILLIAM MITCHELL LTD.]
- Joseph Gillott's Pens
-
MACNIVEN & CAMERON, LTD.
- Waverley Pen
-
MARIE TODD & CO.
- "Swan" Fountpen
- NELLEMAN, L.
- NÖSSLER & CO., MAX
-
OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY
- Oliver Typewriter
-
REMINGTON TYPEWRITER AND BOOK-KEEPING MACHINE AGENCY
- Remington Typewriter
-
WIESINGER & CO., LD., OTTO, G.M.B.
- Royal Typewriter
- 鄭祥泰皮貨號
- 鳳祥新記銀樓
- 達興總公司
- 億德洋行
- 坤寳女子營業社
- 務商中學
- 中華法律專門學校
- 中國女子體操學校
- CHINESE Y.M.C.A. COLLEGE 青年會附屬中學堂
- COMMERCIAL PRESS 商務印書館
- FUDAN UNIVERSITY 復旦公學
- JIANGSU FIRST AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL 江蘇省立第一農業學校
- 蘇州景海女學校
- 民生女學校
- 蘇州東吳大學
- 中國體操學校
- 南洋路礦學校附屬高等小學
- 因宜學社
- 靶子場明强學校
- 文明書局
- 美記外國紙行
- 寰球尊孔會
- 勝家縫紉女學校
- SHENBAO 申報館
- 富華工廠
- MOUTRIE & COMPANY, S., LIMITED
- North China Daily News
-
Engineering & Industry
- ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO
- BEROIDS LAUNCH AND ENGINE CO., (THE ) (GLASGOW)
- CHINA GENERAL ENGINEERING COMPANY (THE)
- CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING COMPANY, LIMITED [THE]
- DITMAR, BRUNNER BROS. LTD., R.
- DUNCAN & COMPANY
- FAWCETT, PRESTON & CO. LD.
- GOODRICH COMPANY, B.F.
- GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO. LD.
- JACKS & COMPANY, WILLIAM
- KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
- LIDDELL BROTHERS & COMPANY
- MANO & COMPANY
- MATHER & PLATT, LIMITED
- MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LiMITED
- OLIVIER IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY
- SHANGHAI HORSE BAZAAR & MOTOR COMPANY, LTD. [THE]
- SHANGHAI MACHINE COMPANY
- TRUSSED CONCRETE STEEL CO.
- WIESINGER & CO., LD., OTTO, G.M.B.
- WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK, LTD.
- YAH LOONG & COMPANY
- SHEWAN, TOMES & COMPANY
- ONODA CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED
- BUCHHEISTER & BIDWELL
- ROSE, DOWNS & THOMPSON, LIMITED
- 巴黎銀公司
- 普益達記國貨機器公司
- 大支社
- 青州水門汀有限公司
- 漢冶萍[招商局]
- GUMMIWERKE HEINRICH PETER & CO.
- 盛昌公司
- 瑞泰祥燭棧
-
Finance & Service
- BANK OF CHINA
- BANK OF TAIWAN [THE]
- BANQUE BELGE POUR L'ETRANGER, S.A. [SOCIETE GENERALE DE Belgique]
- BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE
- CATHAY TRUST, LIMITED [THE]
- CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA
- COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA [IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA]
- DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK
- HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION [alias H.S.B.C]
- KURYU & CO.
- NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY [NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPY]
- RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK
- WATTIE & CO. LIMITED, J.A. [Secretaries and General Manager]
- SOCIETE FRANCO-CHINOISE DE CREDIT
- AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY [THE]
- ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO. [General Agents for China]
- ARNHOLD, KARBERG & COMPANY [General Agents]
- Bower, Hanbury & Company [PROBST, HANBURY & COMPANY]
- BURKILL & SONS, A.R.
- COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED
- EQUITABLE FIRE & ACCIDENT OFFICE, LIMITED [THE] [alias EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE?]
- EXCESS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED
- FIRE LONDON AND LANCASHIRE ROYAL EXCHANGE
- GENERAL ACCIDENT, FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LTD. [FAR EASTERN MANAGER]
- ILBERT & CO., LTD. [Agents, Shanghai]
- LAW UNION AND ROCK INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED
- LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE
- LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION [THE]
- MACKINNON MACKENZIE & COMPANY
- MAGDEBOURG FIRE INSURANCE CO.
- MUSTARD & COMPANY [Agents, Shanghai]
- NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
- NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.
- QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY, (THE) [ROYAL INSURANCE CO., LTD.]
- REISS & COMPANY, HUGO
- RHENISH MARINE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LD. (THE)
- ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION OF LONDON [alias ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY?]
- ROYAL INSURANCE CO., LTD.
- RUSSIA INSURANCE COMPANY
- SANDER, WIELER & CO. (Agents)
- MACDONALD & COMPANY, THOMAS, [alias SOONG MOW]
- SLEVOGT & COMPANY
- SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO. LD
- STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
- WESTPHAL, KING & RAMSAY LIMITED [formerly KING, SON AND RAMSAY, 1904-1908, W.W. KING AND SON, 1892-1904]
- CHINA REALTY COMPANY, LIMITED
- BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
- BOWERN & COMPANY
- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
- CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD
- MOORE & COMPANY, L., LIMITED
- NOEL, MURRAY & COMPANY, LIMITED
- FUNDER & CO., W.
- HOPKINS, DUNN & COMPANY, LIMITED
- YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED
- 中華銀行
- 裝日清公司
- 公泰土行
- LION MUTUAL PROVIDENT LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY 延豐益壽保險儲蓄會社
- LONDON INSURANCE COMPANY
- 中國華安合羣保壽有限公司
- 亨達銀箱洋行
- 延年公司
- 延年保壽保司
- 愛衆聯保壽險公司
- 愛衆聯保壽險有限公
- 太古BS火險公司
- 柯里仁火險公司
- 叭喇定火險公司
- 雙司勞哈其火險公司
- 家定保險公司
- 華安合羣保壽公司
- 華洋人壽公司
- 華僑合衆人壽保險有限公司
- 愼昌洋行
- 意奎推勃而火險有限公司
- TATA & COMPANY
- THORNE, BROS. & COMPANY
- BOWER, HANBURY & COMPANY
- 担文公館 [担文大律師]
- 達商大律師
- 吳縣拍賣虎邱房屋
- 寳和洋行
- 潤記洋行
- 沃沛律師
- 龔鐸宋鈞培大律師
-
Health
- BEETHAM & SON, M.
- COMPAGNIE DU VIN SAINT-RAPHAEL, VALENCE [Drome, France]
- SHANGHAI CHEMICAL LABORATORY
- SLEVOGT & COMPANY
- SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN BASLE [Basle, Switzerland, Pharmaceut. Depart.]
- VOELKEL & SCHROEDER LTD. [Shanghai]
- HORLICK'S MALTED MILK COMPANY, LTD.
- LLEWELLYN & CO., LTD
- SIN HAO & CO.
- FINDLEY, DR. W.T.
- LAZARUS, N. [OPTICIANS]
- RASMUSSEN, DR. O.D. [OPTICIAN]
- KOFA AMERICAN DRUG COMPANY
- SCOTT & BOWNE MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS
- SIEMSSEN & COMPANY
- WATSON'S MINERAL WATERS CO., LTD [Authorized Bottler]
- ANGLO-CHINESE DISPENSARY
- ANSHOH & COMPANY
- ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE MEDICINE
- BRITISH DISPENSARY
- CARLOWITZ & COMPANY
- INTERNATIONAL DISPENSARY [FIVE CONTINENTS DRUGSTORE]
- GREAT EASTERN DISPENSARY
- Holland China Handels Compagnie, N. V.
- Kobayashi & Company
- LLEWELLYN & CO., LTD
- ORIMAULT
- Roese Brothers
- SCHMIDT & COMPANY, LIMITED
- 三角 (Sanjiao) [Triangle]
- 恒孚土棧
- ZHOU Minqi, Dr. 周鳴岐醫生
- 廣東仙壽窩
- 懷德堂老醫局
- 存濟局周文卿
- 京都天寳齋
- 彭壽堂藥房
- 和盛東號土行
- 美國璧柯臣
- 天經洋行
- 光華堂大藥房
- 彭壽堂藥房
- 崔氏瓣香廬驥雲氏
- 蘇州尤松泉門人張希孟女士醫庽
- 女子振業公司
- 東亞商社
- 明强醫院
- 仁濟醫館
- 南洋勸業會
- 英國駱醫生總藥局
- 華粹國貨公司
- 老合盛土行
- 上海作新戒烟醫院
- 鴻泰宇號
- 頣南堂
- 汪家田醫生
- 清芬堂醫藥室 [崔濟方醫生]
- 元茂土棧
- 屈氏大藥房
- 中國公立醫院
- 高拔士眼科專家
- Goddard, Dr. John
- Toa & Company 東亞公司
-
Leisure & Pleasure
- ABDULLA & COMPANY, LTD.
- TABAQUERIA FILIPINA, LTD [THE]
- CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.
- CUTLER, PALMER & COMPANY
- DAI NIPPON BREWERY CO. LTD [THE]
- GARNER, QUELCH & CO.
- KAMP & CO.
- PERRIER, B. & E.
- A.D.C. THEATRE [alias CUADC - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY DRAMATIC CLUB]
- APOLLO THEATRE
- VICTORIA THEATRE
- WEEKS & COMPANY, LTD.
- ROBERTS & CO. LD., JOHN
- SAVOY HOTEL
- LANE CRAWFORD & COMPANY, LIMITED
- HALL & HOLTZ, LTD.
- MOUTRIE & COMPANY
- SIEMSSEN & COMPANY
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY (CHINA), LTD.
- HENNESSY & COMPANY, JAS
- RONDON & COMPANY, LIMITED, LOUIS
- SLEVOGT & COMPANY
- DAWUTAI DACING HALL 大舞台
- PATHE-ORIENT, LTD. 百代公司
- 開明社
- 醒舞臺
- 東京活動影戲園
- 客棧召頂
- 醒舞臺
- 丹桂第一台
- 中舞臺
- 法界迎仙鳳舞臺
- 丹桂和記茶園
- 羣仙茶園
- 南京新武台
- 法界歌舞台民鳴新劇社
- 商辦鏡花戲園
- 得利公司
- 鳴盛梨園原址
- 新民新劇社
- 新民新劇社
- 漢口大旅館
-
Nutrition
- HORLICK'S MALTED MILK COMPANY, LTD.
- VENTURI, F. [VENTURIS' SPECTIAL STORE OF ITALIAN PROVISION]
- NEW GERMAN BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY
- RICHARD NEUMANN [THE GERMAN BUTCHER]
- SWEETMEAT CASTLE [RESTAURANT]
- STURH & CO., C.
- PATELL & COMPANY
- ALLEN & HANBURYS LIMITED
- BADOIT ? [et/ou COMPAGNIE FERMIERE DE L'ETABLISSEMENT THERMAL DE VICHY (CFV)]
- DOMBEY & SON
- SOEY CHONG [TEA DEALER]
- 廣東種(德)
-
Publicity/propaganda
- SHANGHAI SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS [THE]
-
Urban service, energy & transportation
- FAR EASTERN OXYGEN AND ACETYLENE CO, LD. [THE]
- LIVIO SILVA, D.C. D.S.C., M.A.I.M.E.
- MITSUI & CO.
- MUNICIPAL ELECTRICY DEPARTMENT [OFFICE]
- SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY [S.M.R.], DAIREN
- AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY [THE]
- AUSTRIAN LLOYD
- BRITISH-INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. [alias B.I.S.N. CO., LD.]
- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
- CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE [C.P.]
- CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED [C.N. CO., LTD]
- EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD., [E. & A.]
- KAWASAKI DOCKYARD CO. LTD
- MAGILL & COMPANY, JAMES
- MELCHERS & COMPANY
- MESSAGERIES MARITIMES DE France, M.M.
- MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD & ENGINE WORKS
- MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA [COAL DEPARTMENT] [MITSU BISHI CO.]
- MORDUCOVITCH, M.A. [Agent Russian Volunteer Fleet]
- NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN [N.D.L.]
- OWEN, A.R. [Agent]
- PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP [P.M.] [alias PORTLAND ASIATIC S.S. KAI CO., OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO. [alias TOYO KISEN SHA, ORIENTAL S.S. CO.]
- RACINE, ACKERMANN & CIE [SOCIETE ANONYME]
- SASSOON & CO., DAVID
- SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY [S.M.R.], DAIREN
- TAIKOO DOCKYARD AND ENGINEERING CO. OF HONGKONG, LIMITED [THE]
- THORNYCROFT & CO. LTD., JOHN I.
- TOYO KISEN KAISHA [T.K.K.]
- YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD. [THE]
- SHANGHAI GAS COMPANY, LIMITED 上海自來火公司
- NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA [N.Y.K.] [JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.] 日本郵船會社
- PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP NAVIGATION COMPANY [P. & O. S.N. CO.]
- Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha 郵船株式會社
- 督辦浦口商埠
- 廣東自來水公司
- 庽滬西人工部公局電氣處
- 浙路公司
- 廣東粤漢鐵路公司
- 同和老棧
- 恒泰土棧
- 怡成土棧
- 祥盛土棧
- 光成土棧
- 新泰土棧
- 瑞昌土棧
- 同泰盛土棧
- 義勇艦隊公司
- 安裕土棧
- 廣東移此協和成土棧
- 鴻泰祥土棧
- 和順土棧
- 大同棧
- 滬甯鐵路
- 津浦鐵路
- 藍裕昌土棧
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Consumers/Markets
- Before the arrival of American firms, domination of European advertisers who primarily addressed foreign and Chinese elites
- No concern for reaching China "from top to bottom" with a variety of products
-
System/configuration of mediums (P1, P2, P3, P6)
-
Outdoor/3D advertising
-
Crude ballyhoo" and "primitive" easy-to-understand methods used by Chinese merchants
- Flags, banners
- Gaudily colored posters merely "sniped" on walls or fences
- Parades
- Gifts of puzzles or calendars
- Kites
- Junks, sampans (painted signs thereon)
- Itinerant story-tellers
- Billposting/Sniping: Posters usually merely "sniped" on walls, fences, other painted signs, boards, posters or any other surfaces
-
Emergence of standardized billboards/hoardings (either painted or using paper posters)
- A.G. Hickmott 1906-1907 (SMA)
- BAT small tin boards (1912) (SMA)
- OAA and Harvey Billbposting domainted the field in 1914 (SMA first Census)
-
Absence of street-car advertising
- A few scattered cards on the inside of the cars
- A few painted boards or posters attached to the fenders outside
-
Almost no electric signs outside Shanghai's "Great White Way" (Nanking Road)
- Department stores
- Electric signs advertising goods for popular consumption (cigarettes, medicines...)
- Motion-picture advertising undermined by cultural differences and the absence of organization devoted to film distribution
- No effort towards marketing and window-display ("take-it-or-leave-it" appearance) of retail stores
-
Indoor/2D/printed advertising
-
Press advertising
-
Only a few valuable daily newspapers
- Leading Chinese newspapers with circulations of 10000 to 30000: three leading newspapers in Shanghai
- Shenbao (1872)
- Xinwenbao (1893)
- Shibao (before 1904) alias "Eastern Times"
- Secondary Chinese newspaper with circulation of no more than 3000 (usually political rather than business enterprises, depending on the precarious life of their patron, undermined by poor business management)
- English-language newspapers
- Bulk of British-owned newspapers
- North China Daily News (1864), with a circulation of 3500 and advertising rates from 0,22 to 1,20 U.S.$ per column inch
- Shanghai Times
- Shanghai Mercury
- Both formerly British dailies, yet strongly pro-Japanese in times of crisis
- A few American or Chinese-American joint papers
- China Press (1911) 大陸報 [Dalubao] with a daily circulation of 4500, advertising rates: 0,21 to 0,45 Mex.$ per column inch. Formerly American-owned, recently (before 1921) purchased by British interests
- Shanghai Gazette
- L'Echo de Chine (French)
- A few Japanese & Russian papers
-
Very few foreign periodicals
- A few weeklies
- Millard's Review of the Far East (1917), with circulation of about 5000 in China (renamed China Press Weekly Review in 1923)
- North China Herald (1850)
- China and Far East Finance and Commerce: a new financial weekly
- Rare monthly publications
- Far Eastern Review: An old and widely read monthly devoted to engineering, financial and commercial subjects
- Lack of export trade journals
- 400 publications of all kinds in China before 1921
- Direct-by-mail advertising
- Catalogues
-
Directories (no directories devoted exclusiverly to one city in China, but rather general directories)
- Rosenstock's Directory of China (22 Nanking Road, Shanghai)
- Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan, Straits Settlements the Philippines, etc (Hongkong Daiy Press, Hongkong)
- Calendar posters (very popular among the Chinese)
-
Mixed mediums: printed ads distributed at a very low cost
- Handbills
- Circulars
- Booklets