14 May 2004

Women's Magazines from the [China's] Republican Period
Barbara Mittler, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
Self-description: "Women's magazines, the first of which appeared in China in 1898, were a significant side-product from the rise of a free press based on the foreign model in late 19th century treaty port China. As public fora of discussion explicitly catering to women, they were of and by themselves indicators of some of the rapid changes in Chinese society at the time: during the first decades of the twentieth century, women from all strata of society would gradually be accepted into a reading and writing community that worked within and, more importantly, also without the confines of the home. [...]. "
Site contents: (1) Women's Magazines (Funu shibao, 1911-1917; Shenzhou nubao, 1913; Funu zazhi, 1915-1931; Xin funu, 1920-1921; Xin nuxing, 1927-1929; Nuguang zhoukan, 1930; Linglong, 1932-1937; Nuxing texie, 1936; Zhongguo funu, 1939-1941); (2) Bibliography: (a) Women's Magazines in China; (b) Women's Magazines abroad; (c) Women in Republican China.
URL http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/womag/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30