The Archive · 1920

The New Hong List

North China's Commercial Weather Gauge The 1920 North-China Desk Hong

List appears in its familar red wrapper and maintains its excellent standard of clearness and style. Some idea of the work of producing a directory may be gathered when the reader is informed that over 22,000 corrections have been made in this edition alone. The increasing changes that inevitably take place thoughout the Ports make the work more difficult, yet despite this fact there are few typographical errors. The book contains many more pages than the preceding edition and it is interesting to learn that the addition is mostly due to the growth of Shanghai. New foreign hongs and businesses, listed since the 1919 edition, make a total of nearly 200, with over 50

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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