Southern Weekly
| 在这里读懂中国 (Understand China here.) | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper (Thur.) |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Founder(s) | Zuo Fang |
| Publisher | Southern Weekly Press |
| Editor-in-chief | Huang Can |
| Managing editor, design | Zhou Yiping |
| Founded | 11 February 1984 |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language | Simplified Chinese |
| Headquarters | 289 Central Guangzhou Avenue, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
| City | Guangzhou, Guangdong |
| Country | China |
| Readership | 1.7 million |
| Sister newspapers | Southern Daily, etc. |
| OCLC number | 47997289 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 南方周末 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 南方週末 | ||||||||||
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Southern Weekly (Chinese: 南方周末; lit. 'Southern Weekend') is a Chinese weekly newspaper based in Guangzhou, and is a sister publication of the newspaper Nanfang Daily. From the 1990s to the early 2010s, the newspaper was renowned for its investigative journalism, liberal stance, and influence among intellectual readers. The New York Times described the Southern Weekly as "China's most influential liberal newspaper". After the 2013 Southern Weekly incident, the newspaper and the market-oriented media it represented began to decline in China.