Funü shibao
Funü shibao (Chinese: 婦女時報; meaning Women's News in English) was a Chinese monthly women's magazine that was published from 1911 to 1917 in Shanghai, China. It was the earliest commercial women's magazine in the country.[1]
Editor-in-chief | Bao Tianxiao |
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Categories | Women's magazines |
Frequency | Monthly |
Founder | Di Baoxian |
Year founded | 1911 |
First issue | 6 November 1911 |
Final issue | 1917 |
Company | You Zheng |
Country | China |
Based in | Shanghai |
Language | Chinese |
History and profile
Funü shibao was established by Di Baoxian in 1911.[2][3] The first issue appeared on 6 November 1911.[2] The magazine was published by Funü Shibao Division at You Zheng publishing company on a monthly basis.[2] Bao Tianxiao served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly,[2][3] which had its headquarters in Shanghai.[4][5]
Funü shibao featured articles written by women.[1] The magazine covered articles about female liberation as well as fashion and hairstyles for women.[6] It also contained work translated from Japanese.[7] The number of female readers increased over time.[3]
References
- Doris Sung; Liying Sun; Matthias Arnold (Fall 2014). "The Birth of a Database of Historical Periodicals". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 33 (2). Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- "Funü shibao". University of Heidelberg. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- Christian Henriot; Wen-hsin Yeh (2012). Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. BRILL. p. 135. ISBN 90-04-22820-9.
- Jin Feng (2004). The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. Purdue University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-55753-330-2.
- Charlotte Lucia Cowden (Spring 2011). "Balancing Rites and Rights: The Social and Cultural Politics of New-Style Weddings in Republican Shanghai, 1898-1953" (PhD Thesis). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- Laikwan Pang (2007). The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. University of Hawaii Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-8248-3093-9.
- Joan Judge (2015). Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press. University of California Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-520-95993-4.
- "Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937". Heidelberg University. Retrieved 8 July 2016.