Funü Shibao
Editor-in-chiefBao Tianxiao
CategoriesWomen's magazines
FrequencyMonthly
FounderDi Baoxian
Founded1911
First issue6 November 1911
Final issue1917
CompanyYou Zheng
CountryChina
Based inShanghai
LanguageChinese

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

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

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Funü shibao". University of Heidelberg. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Laikwan Pang (2007). The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-8248-3093-9.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937". Heidelberg University. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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