The Young Companion, known asLiángyǒu in Chinese, was a pictorial magazine with captions in both Chinese and English, published inShanghai, China, between 1926 and 1945. It is regarded as one of the most influential large-scale comprehensive Asian pictorials in the 1920s, and has proven useful to historians in modern times in examining the glamorous side of colonial-era Shanghai. It ran for 174 issues, including two special issues not given monthly issue numbers – the "Sun Yat-sen Memorial Special" and the "Eighth Anniversary". This is the cover of the first issue ofThe Young Companion, dated 15 February 1926, and featuring a photograph of the Chinese actressHu Die.Cover credit: Hujiang Photo Studio; retouched byChris Woodrich