Wenhui bao

Wen Hui Bao ( Chinese:文汇报; Pinyin: Wen Hui Bao ) is a Chinese daily newspaper in Shanghai.

History

The Wenhuibao was founded in 1938 by left-wing intellectuals to the writers and journalists Ke Ling. In the following decade it was closed twice because of their left-wing political direction.

Early 1956 the Wenhuibao was forced to move to Beijing and thereby renamed Jiaoshibao ( Lehrerzeitung ). In the course of the Hundred Flowers movement but the newspaper was able to resume from October 1956 their activities. At this time under her editor Xu Zhucheng was the Wenhuibao to one of the newspapers who practiced most openly critique. It was therefore attacked by Mao Zedong.

In the 1960s, the Wenhuibao came under the control of Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiaos, who launched an attack on the historian Wu Han by using the newspaper. The accompanying article against Wu Hans drama Hai Rui is deprived of his office is one of the starting points for the Cultural Revolution. On January 4, 1967, the newspaper was taken over by units of the Red Guards, who took control of Shanghai.

In the 1980s, the Wenhuibao is re-appeared and became a popular newspaper with a large circulation outstanding of 1.8 million. During the construction of press groups in 1998, which was supported by the government, merged the newspaper with the Xinmin Wanbao for United Press Group Wenhui - Xinmin ( Wenhui - Xinmin United Press Group), the making it the second largest press group in China by the Guangzhou Daily Press group was in terms of revenue through ads. This position has been challenged increasingly by many competitors in the newspaper market in recent years.