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]

Funü shibao
Editor-in-chiefBao Tianxiao
CategoriesWomen's magazines
FrequencyMonthly
FounderDi Baoxian
Year founded1911
First issue6 November 1911
Final issue1917
CompanyYou Zheng
CountryChina
Based inShanghai
LanguageChinese

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]

The magazine ceased publication in 1917.[1][8]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Funü shibao". University of Heidelberg. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  3. 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.
  4. Jin Feng (2004). The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. Purdue University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-55753-330-2.
  5. 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.
  6. Laikwan Pang (2007). The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. University of Hawaii Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-8248-3093-9.
  7. 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.
  8. "Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937". Heidelberg University. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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