Nüzi shijie

Nüzi shijie
CategoriesWomen's magazines
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1904
Final issue1907
CountryChina
Based inShanghai
LanguageChinese

Nüzi shijie (Chinese:女子世界; Women’s World) was a Chinese language women's magazine which was in circulation between 1904 and 1907 in Shanghai, China. It is one of the major women's magazines of the period 1904–1937.[1]

History and profile

Nüzi shijie was launched by the Women’s World Society of Changshu as a monthly publication in Shanghai in 1904.[2] The founding editor was Ding Chuwo, a scholar and educator, who edited the magazine until 1907.[2] The last issue of the magazine was edited by Chen Yiyi which appeared in 1907.[2]

It had a wide distribution area,[3] including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang in addition to Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shandong and Beijing.[2] Target audience of Nüzi shijie was urban women readers.[4] Major contributors were Gao Xie, Gao Xu and Liu Yazi, and some of the contributors were women.[2] The magazine frequently featured articles about the women-related issues and gender relations in the Qing period.[2] These articles were didactic in nature.[4] It also published biographies of well-known historical Chinese women such as Shen Yunying and Qin Liangyu.[5] The magazine argued that both women's education and the reinforcement of their rights were indispensable requirements for the survival of China.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republic Period". George Washington University Libraries. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Nüzi Shijie (Women's World)". University of Heidelberg. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b Doris Sung; Liying Sun; Matthias Arnold (Fall 2014). "The Birth of a Database of Historical Periodicals: Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 33 (2): 227–237. JSTOR 43653333.
  4. ^ a b Barbara Mittler (2018). "The New (Wo)man and her/his Others: Foreigners on the Pages of China's Women's Magazines". In Michel Hockx; Joan Judge; Barbara Mittler (eds.). Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 302, 307. ISBN 978-1-108-41975-8.
  5. ^ Eavan Cully (November 2008). Nationalism, Feminism, and Martial Valor: Rewriting Biographies of Women in Nüzi shijie (1904-1907) (MA thesis). McGill University. p. 12.