The ''Journal of Current Pictorial'' (時事畫報) was a

manhua () are Chinese-language comics produced in China and Taiwan. Whilst Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China in some shape or form throughout its imperial history, the term first appeared in 1904 in a comic titled ''Cu ...

magazine published in 1905. It was authored and drawn by members of the

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. The magazine was banned by the

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in 1909.Wong, Wendy Siuyi. 002(2001) Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua. Princeton Architectural Press. New York. Subsequently, few years after the

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, the Qing was overthrown in 1911 under the

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The purpose of the publication was aimed at informing the general public of events and politics in China. It was released three times a month. The artists Pan Da-wei (潘達微), Gao Jian-Fu (高劍父), Xie Ying-bo (謝英伯), He Jian-shi (何劍士) and Zheng Nu-quan (鄭磊泉) belonged to the revolutionary

. The work criticized Chinese

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along with exposing the corruption and weaknesses of the

Qing government The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

. The magazine was banned in 1909 in China, when it was believed to be spreading anti-Qing propaganda. After the ban, the publication resumed temporarily in

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for a few months the following year. The Qing government later successfully pressured the British Colonial government to also ban the magazine in Hong Kong. In 1912, a few months after Republic of China established, the pictorial was resumed publication in Guangzhou. However, it was ended by a turmoil a year later.

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