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History

''Wenhui Bao'' was founded in Shanghai on January 25, 1938 by

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-leaning intellectuals centered on writer and journalist

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. Over the next decade, it was closed down twice for its political leanings. In early 1956, ''Wenhui Bao'' was forced to relocate to Beijing and was renamed ''

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'' (Teacher's News). After the start of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, however, the paper was allowed to resume publication under its original name, beginning on 1 October 1956. Under its editor-in-chief

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, ''Wenhui Bao'' became one of the most outspoken newspapers of the Hundred Flowers period, but was attacked by Mao Zedong in July 1957 and punished. In the 1960s, ''Wenhui Bao'' became an outlet for Mao Zedong's editorials, and in late 1965 it was used by the Shanghai leftists supporting Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao to launch their attack on the writer Wu Han. Their polemical review of Wu's play ''

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'' became the triggers of China's Cultural Revolution. On 4 January 1967, the paper was taken over by radical Red Guards in the first power seizure in Shanghai. In the 1980s, ''Wenhui Bao'' re-emerged as a widely read paper with a circulation of 1.8 million. In 1998, in a wave of creating press groups backed by the government, ''Wenhui Bao'' and ''

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'' were merged into the

Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group Shanghai United Media Group () is a state media company of the People's Republic of China, established on October 28, 2013, through the merger of the city's two largest newspaper groups, Jiefang Daily Press Group and Wenhui–Xinmin United Press ...

, which was the second largest press group in China after Guangzhou Daily Press Group in terms of advertisement revenues.

References

External links

Official website
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