Nübao

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{{Short description|Defunct women's magazine in China (1898–1903)}}

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Nübao (meaning Women’s Journal in English) was established in 1898 and as such was one of China’s first women's magazines.{{cite book|author=Barbara Mittler|title=A Newspaper for China?: Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media, 1872-1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8xvUqQTSc8C&pg=PA254|year=2004|publisher=Harvard Univ Asia Center|isbn=978-0-674-01217-2|page=254}} The founder was Chen Xiefen, a Chinese feminist and journalist of the Qing era.{{cite book|author=Cynthia Chin-Lee|title=Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9lmV6mzcO4C&pg=PA27|date=1 July 2008

|publisher=Charlesbridge|isbn=978-1-60734-178-9|page=27}} The magazine had five goals:

• Abolishing foot binding
• Educating girls
• Freeing marriage
• Jobs for women
• Equality with men.[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/world/asia/holding-up-half-the-sky.html?_r=0 Holding Up Half the Sky] 6 March 2012, The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2015

The headquarters of Nübao was in Shanghai.{{cite book|author=Kazuko Ono|title=Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950|url=https://archive.org/details/chinesewomenince00onok|url-access=registration|year=1989|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1497-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/chinesewomenince00onok/page/56 56]}}{{cite book|author=James Z. Gao|title=Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJrLhcgog8oC&pg=PA459|date=16 June 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6308-8|page=459}} The magazine was closed by the Chinese government in 1903 due to its anti-government stance.