''Wenhui Bao'' (),

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as the ''Wenhui Daily'',Shanghai Municipal Government
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published by the

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History

''Wenhui Bao'' was founded in

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on January 25, 1938 by leftist-leaning

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centered on writer and journalist

Ke Ling Ke Ling (; 1909 – 19 June 2000) was a Chinese journalist, publicist and writer. He is best known for his involvement with the Leftist newspaper '' Wenhui Bao'', founded in February 1938. Early life Ke Ling was born in the market town of Doumen ...

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

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and was renamed '' Jiaoshibao'' (Teacher's News). After the start of the

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, however, the paper was allowed to resume publication under its original name, beginning on 1 October 1956. Under its editor-in-chief Xu Zhucheng, ''Wenhui Bao'' became one of the most outspoken newspapers of the Hundred Flowers period, but was attacked by

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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

leftists supporting

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and

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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

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. On 4 January 1967, the paper was taken over by radical

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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 Pres ...

, 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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