Editor | Zhou Jianyun |
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Categories | Women's issues |
Frequency | Monhtly |
First issue | 4 May 1920 |
Final issue | c. 1922 |
Country | China |
Based in | Shanghai |
Language | Chinese |
The Emancipation Pictorial (simplified Chinese: 解放画报; traditional Chinese: 解放畫報; pinyin: Jiěfàng Huàbào), also known as the Liberation Pictorial, was a short-lived women's magazine published in the Republic of China. Established by the Xinmin Library, it first published on 4 May 1920, and is known to have lasted for eighteen issues; the preface to the last edition indicated a plan to rejuvenate the magazine, which has not been identified.
Articles, mostly produced by men, dealt with topics of interest to contemporary women readers such as breast binding and marriage. The Emancipation Pictorial advocated for equal rights for men and women, though it did not embrace the contemporary women's rights movement and rejected women's participation in politics. Imagery ranged from the realistic to the surreal, and generally explored how women had suffered, emancipation could occur, and emancipation was realized in contemporary China.