Ming Pao Monthly
| Discipline | Literature, Politics |
|---|---|
| Language | Traditional Chinese |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1966-present |
| Publisher | Media Chinese International (Hong Kong, China) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Ming Pao Monthly |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0580-6291 |
| OCLC no. | 1715260 |
| Links | |
Ming Pao Monthly (Chinese: 明報月刊; pinyin: Míngbào Yuèkān) is a Chinese-language intellectual journal in Hong Kong, covering the humanities, scholarship, culture, politics, and thought in the Sinosphere.[1]
History
[edit]Ming Pao Monthly was founded by Jin Yong in 1966,[2][3] hoping to pass on the torch of traditional Chinese culture. He recalled:[4]
In publishing Ming Pao Monthly, we were determined to go against the Cultural Revolution. We have lived our whole lives in Chinese culture. We support the revolution of Chinese culture and the elimination of its dross, but we do not support the destruction of Chinese culture. We must not abandon China's thousands of years of tradition.
After the founding of Ming Pao Monthly, Jin Yong appointed himself as the editor-in-chief. Later, Hu Juren served as the editor-in-chief for 13 years. In 1991, Pan Yaoming began to take over as the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao Monthly.[5]
Starting in the summer of 1967, the journal published the Collection of Documents on the Cultural Revolution of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: 《中共文化大革命資料彙編》), which consisted of six volumes and contained more than three million words. It also published Zhang Guotao’s “My Memoirs”.[6]
China's earliest scar literature, such as "Big Blue Fish", "County Magistrate Yin", and "Geng Er in Beijing" written by Chen Ruoxi, were all published in Ming Pao Monthly in the 1970s. Nie Hualing's "Sang Qing and Tao Hong" was serialized in Taiwan's United Daily News, but was cut short for political reasons. It was also published in full in Ming Pao Monthly.[5]
From 2014 to 2018, Ming Pao Monthly received funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to add a cultural supplement for totaling 49 issues.[7] From 2022 to 2023, Ming Pao Monthly received support from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's to add the Ming Yue Bay cultural supplement for totaling 12 issues,[8] with the title of the publication written by Jin Yaoji.[9]
Editorial stance
[edit]Different from the daily newspaper Ming Pao, Ming Pao Monthly was endowed with a strong academic nature from the beginning, similar to the mainland China's Dushu magazine. Ming Pao Monthly is not a radical journal with a clear advocacy, which is due to its creed of "independence, freedom, and tolerance". Ming Pao Monthly has been committed to the long-term exploration of certain academic topics such as Redology and Traditional Chinese Medicine versus Western Medicine. The journal's primary focus is on culture and scholarship; when it comes to politics, it claims to never be a mouthpiece for any party.[1]
Advisory board
[edit]The journal's advisory board includes 46 well-known figures such as Wang Meng, Wang Dewei, Tian Changlin, Li Zehou, Lee Ou-fan, Yu Guangzhong, Yu Yingshi, Wu Guanzhong, Wu Qinghui, Shen Zuyao, Tu Weiming, Bai Yang, Xu Lizhi, Gao Xingjian, Xia Zhiqing, Göran Malmqvist, Tang Degang, Huang Yongyu, Yu Feng, Howard Goldblatt, Yang Zhenning, Liu Zaifu, and Xiao Qian.[10]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Institute, University of London Contemporary China (1975-10-31). A Bibliography of Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals in European Libraries (in Chinese). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-20950-2.
- ^ Archive, Asia Art. "Ming Pao Monthly (All Holdings)". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ "拚了命出版《明月》（金 庸） - 明報月刊". mingpaomonthly.com. Archived from the original on 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ a b "潘耀明：狮子山下，中华文化薪火相传--访谈--中国作家网". www.chinawriter.com.cn. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ 明報月刊社 (1967). 中共文化大革命資料彙編 (in Chinese). 明報月刊社. Archived from the original on 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "「明藝」版及《明月》文化附冊停刊啟事". Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
- ^ 潘耀明 (2023-06-29). "告別篇". 明報走進大灣區 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 2023-07-26. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "明月灣區" (PDF). 明報月刊 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "《明報月刊》顧問 - 明報月刊". mingpaomonthly.com. Retrieved 2024-11-18.