Red Flag (magazine)

The Red Flag (Chinese: 红旗; pinyin: Hóngqí) was a theoretical political journal published by the Chinese Communist Party.[1] It was one of the "Two Newspapers and One Magazine" (两报一刊) during the 1960s and 1970s.[2][3] The newspapers were People's Daily and Guangming Daily.[3] People's Liberation Army Daily is also regarded as one of them.[4]

Red Flag
December 1967 issue, ""Advancing along the Road Opened by the October Socialist Revolution"
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyBi-monthly
PublisherChinese Communist Party
Year founded1958
Final issueJuly 1988
CountryChina
Based inBeijing
LanguageChinese
ISSN0441-4381
OCLC1752410

History and profile

Red Flag was started during the Great Leap Forward era[2] in 1958.[1][5] The journal was the successor to another journal, Study (Xuexi).[6] Its name was given by Mao Zedong.[1] Chen Boda was the editor of the journal,[6] which served as a crucial media outlet during the Cultural Revolution.[1][7] In 1966 Pol Pot formed a similar magazine with the same name in Cambodia in Khmer language, Tung Krahom, modelled on Red Flag.[8]

During the 1960s Red Flag temporarily ended publication, but was restarted in 1968.[9] The frequency of the journal was monthly between its start in 1958 and 1979.[6] It was published bi-monthly from 1980 to 1988.[6] It covered theoretical arguments supported by the party.[2] In May 1988 Chinese officials announced that the journal would be closed.[10] Finally, it ceased publication in June 1988, and was succeeded by Qiushi, another magazine.[1][5]

References
  1. "China to Furl Red Flag, Its Maoist Theoretical Journal". Los Angeles Times. Beijing. 1 May 1988. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  2. Cynthia Leung; Jiening Ruan (4 October 2012). Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 52. ISBN 978-94-007-4821-7. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  3. Robert B. Kaplan; Richard B. Baldauf (2008). Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters. Multilingual Matters. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84769-095-1. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  4. “两报一刊”有《光明日报》吗. CNKI.
  5. "About Qiushi Journal". Qiushi. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  6. Lawrence R. Sullivan (23 May 2007). Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. Scarecrow Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-8108-6443-6. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  7. Kevin Latham (2007). Pop Culture China!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-85109-582-7. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  8. Odd Arne Westad; Sophie Quinn-Judge (27 September 2006). The Third Indochina War: Conflict Between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79. Routledge. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-134-16776-0. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  9. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. February 1969. p. 86. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  10. Roderick MacFarquhar (13 January 1997). The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng. Cambridge University Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-521-58863-8. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
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