Pathé Records (China)

The Shanghai Pathé Record Company (Chinese: 上海百代唱片公司; pinyin: Shànghǎi Bǎidài Gōngsī Chàngpiàn; Cantonese Yale: Baakdoih Cheungpín) was one of the first major record companies in Shanghai, Republic of China, and later relocated to colonial British Hong Kong following the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, a young Frenchman named Labansat set up an outdoor stall on Tibet Road in Shanghai and played gramophone records to Chinese citizens who were curious.

The phonograph was purchased from Moutrie and Company, and he charged anyone 10 cents to listen to a novelty record called "Laughing Foreigners" (洋人大笑).

Pathé subsequently moved its main office from communist Shanghai to colonial British Hong Kong and started to cut records in Hong Kong (which there were made in China before moving its production to India in 1950), thus restoring the glory of Shanghainese pop music in the British colony of the Far East of the Asia-Pacific region.

Pathé Hong Kong faced fierce competition in the 1960s with the rise of Diamond Records and eventually ceased Shanghainese pop production and cut Cantopop instead, which gained popularity in the Chinese mainland the early 1970s.