Wenhui bao
Wen Hui Bao (Chinese: 文汇报; Pinyin: Wén Huì Bào) is a Chinese daily newspaper from Shanghai .
history
Wenhuibao was founded in 1938 by left-wing intellectuals around the writer and journalist Ke Ling. In the following decade it was closed twice because of its leftist political leanings.
In early 1956, Wenhuibao was forced to move to Beijing and was renamed Jiaoshibao (teachers' newspaper). In the course of the Hundred Flowers Movement , the newspaper was able to resume operations from October 1956. At the time, under its editor, Xu Zhucheng, Wenhuibao became one of the most openly criticized newspapers. She was therefore attacked by Mao Zedong.
In the 1960s, the Wenhuibao came under the control of Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao , who launched an attack on the historian Wu Han with the help of the newspaper . The related article against Wu Hans drama Hai Rui is relieved of his office is considered 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.
Wenhuibao reappeared in the 1980s and became a popular newspaper with an outstanding circulation of 1.8 million. During the construction of press groups in 1998, which was supported by the government, the newspaper merged with the Xinmin Evening News for United Press Group Wenhui-Xinmin (Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group), which thus become the second largest press group in China after Guangzhou Daily Press group was, what concerns income from advertisements. In recent years this position has been challenged more and more by numerous competitors in the newspaper market.