The ''Guowen Bao'' () was a late 1800s newspaper based in
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
. The editors were
Yan Fu
Yan Fu (; courtesy name Ji Dao (); 8 January 1854 – 27 October 1921) was a Chinese military officer, newspaper editor, translator, and writer. He is most known for introducing Western ideas to China during the late 19th century.
Life
On Janua ...
(a.k.a. Yen Fu) and
Xia Zengyou.
[ Hegel, Robert E. "]The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century
''The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century'' is a 1980 book edited by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, published by the University of Toronto Press. It was the first book that had been written in a Western language that chronicled fiction pub ...
" (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
Government of Japan
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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). ]Alfred A. Knopf
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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
''The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century'' is a 1980 book edited by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, published by the University of Toronto Press. It was the first book that had been written in a Western language that chronicled fiction pub ...
''. In that issue, editors Yan Fu and Xia Zhengyou posted an announcement that the newspaper's literary supplement was beginning.
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References
Mass media in Tianjin
Defunct newspapers published in China
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