Funü Shibao
| Editor-in-chief | Bao Tianxiao |
|---|---|
| Categories | Women's magazines |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founder | Di Baoxian |
| Founded | 1911 |
| First issue | 6 November 1911 |
| Final issue | 1917 |
| Company | You Zheng |
| Country | China |
| Based in | Shanghai |
| Language | Chinese |
Funü Shibao (Chinese: t 婦女時報, s 妇女时报, Fùnǚ Shíbào; Women's News) 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]
History and profile
[edit]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] Many revolutionary women wrote for the magazine, such as Zhang Mojun.[6] The magazine covered articles about female liberation as well as fashion and hairstyles for women.[7] It also contained work translated from Japanese.[8] The number of female readers increased over time.[3]
The magazine ceased publication in 1917.[1][9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Doris Sung; Liying Sun; Matthias Arnold (Fall 2014). "The Birth of a Database of Historical Periodicals". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 33 (2). JSTOR 43653333.
- ^ a b c d "Funü shibao". University of Heidelberg. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ a b c Joan Judge (2012). "Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs". In Christian Henriot; Wen-hsin Yeh (eds.). Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. Leiden; Boston, MA: BRILL. p. 135. ISBN 978-90-04-22820-7.
- ^ Jin Feng (2004). The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: 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.
- ^ Joan Judge (2015). Republican lens: Gender, visuality, and experience in the early Chinese periodical press. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-520-95993-4. OCLC 952979219.
- ^ Laikwan Pang (2007). The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. Honolulu: 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. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-520-95993-4.
- ^ "Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937". Heidelberg University. Retrieved 8 July 2016.