Funü Shibao Explained

Editor:	Bao Tianxiao
Editor Title:	Editor-in-chief
Category:	Women's magazines
Frequency:	Monthly
Founder:	Di Baoxian
Founded:	1911
Firstdate:	6 November 1911
Finaldate:	1917
Company:	You Zheng
Country:	China
Based:	Shanghai
Language:	Chinese

Funü Shibao 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.

History and profile

Funü Shibao was established by Di Baoxian in 1911.^{[1] [2]} The first issue appeared on 6 November 1911.^[1] The magazine was published by Funü Shibao Division at You Zheng publishing company on a monthly basis.^[1] Bao Tianxiao served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly,^{[1] [2]} which had its headquarters in Shanghai.^{[3] [4]}

Funü Shibao featured articles written by women. Many revolutionary women wrote for the magazine, such as Zhang Mojun.^[5] 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.^[2]

The magazine ceased publication in 1917.^{[8] [9]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Funü shibao. University of Heidelberg. 11 August 2015.
2. Book: Christian Henriot. Wen-hsin Yeh. Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. Joan Judge. https://books.google.com/books?id=bZTljZH2yywC&pg=PA135. 2012. BRILL. 978-90-04-22820-7. Joan Judge. 135. Leiden; Boston, MA. Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs.
3. Book: Jin Feng. The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. 2004. Purdue University Press. 978-1-55753-330-2. 28. West Lafayette, IN.
4. Charlotte Lucia Cowden. Balancing Rites and Rights: The Social and Cultural Politics of New-Style Weddings in Republican Shanghai, 1898-1953. University of California, Berkeley. PhD. Spring 2011.
5. Book: Joan Judge. Republican lens: Gender, visuality, and experience in the early Chinese periodical press. University of California Press. 2015. 978-0-520-95993-4. Berkeley, CA. 21. 952979219.
6. Book: Laikwan Pang. The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. Honolulu. 2007. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-3093-9. 108.
7. Book: Joan Judge. Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press. 2015. University of California Press. 978-0-520-95993-4. 26. Oakland, CA.
8. Liying Sun. Doris Sung. Matthias Arnold. The Birth of a Database of Historical Periodicals. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Fall 2014. 33. 2. 43653333.
9. Web site: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937. Heidelberg University. 8 July 2016.