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It was published in Shanghai in February 1926, and was published in October 1941 until the 171st issue. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in October 1945, the 172nd issue was published. In 1926 and 1934, two special editions of "Sun Yat-sen Memorial Special Issue" and "The Eighth Anniversary
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The magazine was known for its cover-girls, beautiful women who appeared to be active, "modern girls in motion." The motion was really performed by the girls inside the magazine playing sports, while the cover-girls presented modern women, attractive to men in their non-traditional western clothes
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In 1954 Wu Liande restarted his company in Hong Kong, and "re-released the overseas version of "Liangyou," ceasing publication in 1968. In 1984, Wu Fude, son of Wu Liande restarted the Liangyou Book Company, including the "Liangyou" pictorial. However, the magazine did not become as influential as
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on the cover. Called an "iconic magazine" and "a visual shortcut for 'old Shanghai'", the magazine has proven useful in modern times to examine the glamorous side of colonial-era Shanghai. It may have been the most influential large-scale comprehensive pictorial in the 1920s, at least in Asia. It
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Modern scholar Maura Elizabeth Cunningham points out that in spite of the idea of the independence of the modern girl circulating in the period, the magazine showed women how women's sports could be used to satisfy the male gaze and give examples of a "model of femininity for female viewers to
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in 1937. The magazine was suspended in Hong Kong during bankruptcy of the parent Liangyou Book Company, after a run of 138 issues. The new company that owned the magazine was the Liangyou Fuxing Book Company, who restarted
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reproduce." She also pointed out that the magazine showed progress, with pictures inside the magazine not only showing beauty, but also women actively doing sports, something unimaginable a generation earlier.
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pictorial again found a balance between the political demands attached to the current situation and individual aesthetic tastes, with a cover girl in military attire titled "Chinese Women in the New Era".]
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Mo, Yajun (2015). "Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Metropolis, 1926-1945. Edited by Paul G. Pickowicz, Kuiyi Shen, and Yingjin Zhang (Leiden: Brill, 2013) xi, 287 pp. ISBN 9789004245341 ".
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The war interfered with further publishing. Even though the Japanese had taken over the parent company Liangyou Fuxing Book Company, and Chinese owners cooperating reopened the company in April 1942,
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as its third editor-in-chief. Within two years, the monthly pictorial sales reached more than 30,000 copies, selling globally. Liang Desuo stayed for six years as the chief editor before leaving
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printing, and the quality was greatly improved. In August of this year, the 50th edition was increased to 42 pages with 3 pages of multicolored pages.
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in February 1939 in Shanghai under editor-in-chief Zhang Yuanheng (張沅恒). It ran until December 1941, when the 171st issue was published.
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s editor Zhang Yuanheng would not work with them. After the war in October 1945, he published the next and final (172nd) under the name
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ceased publication in 1945. There were 174 issues in total, which includes the two special issues not given monthly issue numbers, the
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Performing "Nation": Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880–1940
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Brill Online Books and Journals, The Modern Girl in Motion: Women and Sports in Liangyou, Overview
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Peter Lau remembers his former mentor, Wu Luen Tak, the founder of The Young Companion pictorial.
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issue. Since 1945, it has been repeatedly reestablished, but the impact has not been the same.
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Page with photos and story about Liangyou's photographers on a China-wide photo expedition.
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The magazine ran a mixture of content, including photography, art, literature and sports.
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Volume 5, Issue 2: Vital Signs: Photography and Eco-Activism in Asia, Spring 2015
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Liangyou, Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926-1945
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In 1925 Wu Liande founded the Liangyou Book Company. A year later the
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Magazine" were published. A total of 174 issues were issued.
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The modern girl's dilemma, being pretty versus being active
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Various aspects of the modern girl in Liangyou discussed.
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is "Good Companion", the magazine bore the English name
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Index

Liangyou
Liangyou Group

Lingyou magazine cover
Hu Die
Zhou Shoujuan
China
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Chongqing
Chinese
Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Wu Liande 伍聯德 founder of The Young Companion magazine
Wu Liande
zh
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
Zhou Shouyi 周瘦鹃
Zhou Shoujuan
Liang Desuo 梁得所
Chinese
Ma Guoliang 馬國亮
Zhang Yuanheng 张沅恒
Zhou Shoujuan
Qilu University
photogravure
Hong Kong
Anti-Japanese War

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