Ladies' Journal Database

The Ladies’ Journal was founded in 1915 by the Shanghai Commercial Press. It was a women’s issue-oriented comprehensive, large-scale magazine. On January 28th, 1932 the Shanghai Commercial Press was blown up and destroyed by the Japanese Army and ceased publication. In all, the journal was published for seventeen years (January 1915 first issue no. 1 to December 1931, seventeenth issue, no. 12). The publication distribution extended from China’s large cities to overseas places like Singapore. In modern China, in terms of its time of publication, distribution, circulation, readership, and social impact there was no other comparable journal on women’s issues. The period of publication for the Ladies’ Journal witnessed the ferment of the May Fourth Movement, its climax and its waning, as well as the Nationalist Revolutionary Period and other major historical periods. Consequently, the Ladies’ Journal is not only of interest for the study of women, but further serves as one small yet broad resource for the study of modern Chinese history.

(From the original website.)