Funü shibao

Funü shibao
Editor-in-chief Bao Tianxiao
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

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]

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. 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). Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Funü shibao". University of Heidelberg. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Christian Henriot; Wen-hsin Yeh (9 November 2012). Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. BRILL. p. 135. ISBN 90-04-22820-9. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Jin Feng (2004). The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. Purdue University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-55753-330-2. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  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. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Joan Judge (21 July 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. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937". Heidelberg University. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
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