[1] The editor of the Shanghai Herald and China Critic, Kwei Chung-shu, had graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
[2] Günther Lenhardt, a journalist from Berlin, Germany, established the Herald.
[3] He hired two journalists from Vienna, Austria, Ladislaus Frank and Mark Siegelberg, who had previously worked for the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle.
[4] Hartmut Walravens, author of German Influence on the Press in China, said that despite the paper's establishment, "the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle remained the leading paper".
[3] One regular feature of the Herald was "Der Wochenslat" ("the weekly salad") by Kurt Lewin.