The ''Guowen Bao'' () was a late 1800s newspaper based in

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

. The editors were

Yan Fu Yan Fu (, IPA: ; courtesy name: Ji Dao, ; 8 January 1854 — 27 October 1921) was a Chinese military officer, newspaper editor, translator, and writer. He was most famous for introducing western ideas, including Darwin's "natural selection", t ...

(a.k.a. Yen Fu) and Xia Zengyou. Hegel, Robert E. " The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century" (book review). '' Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews'' (CLEAR), ISSN 0161-9705, 07/1983, Volume 5, Issue 1/2, pp. 188 – 191 - Cited p. 189. It had backing from the

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and was owned by a Japanese individual. In the late 1800s the newspaper promoted the idea of China and Japan cooperating against white European countries. Chang, Jung. ''Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China'' (eBook).

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, New York, 2013. eBook . p. 233. "A widely-read newspaper in Tianjin, the ''Guo-wen-bao'', owned by a Japanese and with backing from the Japanese government, .. - Hardcover The front page of the November 10, 1897 issue is used as the front cover of the book '' The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century''. In that issue, editors Yan Fu and Xia Zhengyou posted an announcement that the newspaper's literary supplement was beginning.

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