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women's magazine
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Currently published
*'' 10 Magazine'' (UK - distributed worldwide)
*'' Al Jamila'' (Saudi Arabia)
*''All ...
was published in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
The number of women's magazines has increased in the country since the late 1980s.
In addition to national titles international magazines are also published in the country. ''
Madame Figaro
''Madame Figaro'' is a French magazine supplement to the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper ''Le Figaro'', focusing on and catering to women.
History and profile
The first edition was published in 1980. ''Madame Figaro'' was spearheaded by ...
'',
and ''
Elle
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'' are among such titles both of which entered into the Chinese market in 1988.
Cosmopolitan
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* Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
History
* Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
Hotels and resorts
* Cosmopoli ...
'' began to be circulated in the country. ''Esquire
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'' is the first international men's magazine
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which entered the Chinese magazine market in 1999.[ From the 2000s several Japanese magazines began to be circulated in Chinese language in the country, including '']CanCam
is a Japanese monthly fashion magazine published by Shogakukan. Its name supposedly derives from "I Can Campus", because girls who read it are expected to become "campus leaders". The magazine was created for fashion-conscious consumers, and offer ...
''.
Total number of magazines in China was 8,889 in 2001[ when China became a member of the ]World Trade Organization
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revenues
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of the magazines significantly increased.[ The number of foreign consumer magazines was sixty-nine in 2009.]Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
or other languages.
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* ''Asia Literary Review
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* ''Asian Private Banker
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History
''Asian Private Banker'' was founded in November 2009.
Audience
The magazine and we ...
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B
* ''BeijingKids
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Launched originally in April 2005 as a quarterly guidebook called ''Kids in Beijing ...
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* ''Beijing Review
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''
* ''Beijing This Month
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History and profile
The magazine's first issue appeare ...
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* ''The Beijinger
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* '' Bosom Friend''
C
* ''Caijing
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* ''Cawaii!
''Cawaii!'' is a fashion magazine published in Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Thailand, and previously in Japan.
History and profile
Launched as a monthly gal fashion magazine targeted at women in their teens in Japan in March 1996, ''Cawa ...
''
* '' China Business Network Weekly''
* ''China Computer Education
''China Computer Education'' () is a 50-page weekly computer magazine published in mainland China.
History and profile
''China Computer Education'' was started in 1993. It is published by the China Center for Information Industry Development (中 ...
''
* ''China Pictorial
The ''China Pictorial'', known in Chinese as ''Renmin Huabao'' () is a Chinese monthly magazine first published in 1950. The title of the magazine was handwritten by Mao Zedong. It was one of four publications allowed during the Cultural Revoluti ...
''
* '' China Plastic & Rubber Journal''
* ''China Policy Review
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''
* ''China Today
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''
* '' Chinese Literature''
* ''Chinese National Geography
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''
* ''Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal
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* ''The Chinese Repository
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''
* ''City Weekend ''City Weekend'' was a free, bi-weekly entertainment event and venue listing magazine based out of China. Its on-line edition was both autonomous and complementary to the print magazine - ''City Weekend'' was "reader-powered" and sources most of its ...
''
* ''Contemporary Review
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History
The magazine was established in 1866 by Alexander Strahan and a group of intellectuals anxious to promote intellige ...
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* '' Creation Quarterly''
* '' The Culture Arts Review''
D
* ''Diànzǐ Yóuxì Ruǎnjiàn
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* ''Dushu
''Dushu'' (, ''Reading'' in Chinese) is a monthly Chinese literary magazine which has great influence on Chinese intellectuals. It is based in Beijing.
History
The journal was first published in April 1979 with its lead article entitled "No Forbid ...
''
* ''Duzhe
''Duzhe'' () is a bimonthly Chinese general interest magazine. It is among the most widely circulated and the leading magazines in the People's Republic of China.
History and profile
''Duzhe'' was first published in Lanzhou in March 1981. The maga ...
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F
* ''Fiction Monthly
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* ''Freezing Point
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* '' Funü shibao''
* '' Funü zazhi''
G
* '' Gafencu Men''
* '' Gushi Hui''
H
* ''Hongqi Hongqi (, Chinese for "Red Flag") may refer to:
*Red Flag (magazine), ''Hongqi'' (magazine), published by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1988
*Hongqi (marque), Hongqi (automobile), luxury car series of First Automobile Works (FAW), Changc ...
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J
* '' Jintian''
L
* '' Ling Long''
* ''The Young Companion
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''
M
* '' Metallurgy Analysis''
* '' Modern Sketch''
* '' More Hangzhou''
N
* ''New Youth
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''
* '' Nubao''
* ''Numéro
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''
* '' Nüzi shijie''
O
* ''The Outlook Magazine
''The Outlook Magazine'' is a Chinese creative lifestyle magazine.
''The Outlook'' has been published in Shanghai continuously since October 2002 by Modern Media Group. The editor-in-chief is Jiaojiao Chen and the art director is Peng Yangjun; ...
''
P
* ''Painkiller
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* ''Party
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* ''People's Literature
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''
* ''Play
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* Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment
* Play (theatre), a work of drama
Play may refer also to:
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* Play Framework, a Java framework
* Pla ...
''
Q
* ''Qiushi
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The publication aims to publiciz ...
''
R
* '' Ray Li''
* '' Renditions''
S
* ''Science Fiction World
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''
* ''Shanghai Business Review
''Shanghai Business Review'' (, Pinyin: Shànghǎi Shāngyè Pínglùn; also referred to as SBR) provides international and local business information on China and its enterprises. Founded in 2004, SBR currently operates as an English-language bi- ...
''
* '' Shanghai Manhua''
* ''Shanghai Review of Books
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''
* ''Shijie zhishi
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''
* '' Shishang xiansheng''
* '' Shiyue''
* ''South Reviews
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''
* ''Star Girls
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Seriali ...
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T
* '' Tattler''
* '' Tbjhome''
* ''That's Beijing
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''
* ''That's PRD
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* ''That's Shanghai
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As of May 2020, the print magazine had a staff of 30 and a circulation of 62,500 with 40 percent of its readership being expatriates. The m ...
''
* ''Tian Feng
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Life
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* '' The Tiger''
* '' The Traveler''
* '' The Twenty-First Century''
* '' Typhoon Club''
V
* ''Vestnik Manʹchzhurii
''Vestnik Manʹchzhurii'' (''Eng.'' ''Manchuria Monitor'') was a monthly journal of the economy of Manchuria published from 1923 to 1930. The journal was published in Harbin
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* ''Vogue China
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''Vogue China'' became the sixteenth edition of ''Vogue'' when its first issue was released for September 2005; ''
W
* ''The West China Missionary News
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''
* ''Wings of China
''Wings of China'' is the inflight magazine of Air China. The magazine is published monthly in Beijing, China.
History and profile
The magazine was started in 1992 with the name ''Wings''. Ten years later, in 2002, the magazine was renamed ''Win ...
''
* ''Women's Lives
''Women's Lives'' ''Fùnǚ Shēnghuó'') was a monthly Chinese periodical which was published from July 1935 to January 1941. It began in Shanghai as the house journal of the Shanghai Women's National Salvation Society ''Shànghǎi Fùnǚjiè ...
''
* ''The World of Chinese
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Each issue focuses on one specific aspect of Chinese culture and explores it in depth. Previous issues have gone under such broad t ...
''
X
* ''Xinmin Weekly
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''
* '' Xueren''
Y
* ''Yanhuang Chunqiu
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''
* ''The Young Companion
''The Young Companion'', known as ''Liángyǒu'' () in Chinese, was a pictorial with captions in both Chinese and English, published in Shanghai beginning February 1926. Although the direct translation of ''Liangyou'' is "Good Companion", the m ...
''
* '' YOULIN Magazine''
* ''Youth Film Handbook ''Youth Film Handbook'' (青年电影手册) is a Chinese magazine established by film critic/screenwriter/director Cheng Qingsong (程青松) in 2007, featuring independent film reviews and interviews. It is best known for handing out its annual "G ...
''
See also
* List of newspapers in China
This is a list of newspapers in China. The number of newspapers in mainland China has increased from 42—virtually all Communist Party papers—in 1968 to 382 in 1980 and more than 2,200 today. In 2006, China was the largest market for daily news ...
References
{{Asia topic, List of magazines in
China
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Lists of mass media in China
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