Emancipation Pictorial
Fifth issue, July 1920 | |||||||||
Native name | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 觧放𤰱報 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 解放画报 | ||||||||
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| Editor | Zhou Jianyun | ||||||||
| Categories | Women's issues | ||||||||
| Frequency | Monthly | ||||||||
| First issue | 4 May 1920 | ||||||||
| Final issue | c. 1922 | ||||||||
| Country | China | ||||||||
| Based in | Shanghai | ||||||||
| Language | Written vernacular Chinese | ||||||||
The Emancipation Pictorial (simplified Chinese: 解放画报; traditional Chinese: 觧放𤰱報; pinyin: Jiěfàng Huàbào), also known as the Liberation Pictorial, was a short-lived women's magazine published in the Republic of China. Established by the Xinmin Library, it was first published on 4 May 1920 and is known to have lasted for eighteen issues; the preface to the last edition indicated a plan to rejuvenate the magazine, which has not been identified.
Articles, mostly produced by men, dealt with topics of interest to contemporary women readers such as breast binding and marriage. The Emancipation Pictorial advocated for equal rights for men and women, though it did not embrace the contemporary women's rights movement and rejected women's participation in the contemporary political situation. Imagery ranged from the realistic to the surreal, and generally explored how women had suffered, emancipation could occur, and emancipation was realized in contemporary China.