Wen yi bao


Wen yi bao 文艺报 is a Chinese-language newspaper about Chinese literature and art, that is published three times a week. It is issued by the China Writers Association and is published by the Xinhua Bookstore in Beijing. The name of the paper is sometimes written as Wenyi bao or Wenyibao.

English translation

There does not appear to be a standard English translation for this publication, and various translations have been used: e.g. Literary Gazette, China Arts Gazette, China Literature and Art Gazette, etc.

History

Wen yi bao was first issued on 25 September 1949. Howard Goldblatt described the impact as follows:
Since 2003 it has been issued three times a week. The editors of the paper have included Mao Dun 茅盾, Ding Ling 丁玲, Feng Xuefeng 冯雪峰, Zhang Guangnian 张光年 and Feng Mu 冯牧.