1902-05-08

1903-09-00

Publishing dates had to be deduced:

Xu chu nu bao (1902 = Volume 001):
- Issue no. 0001, 0002: No publishing date printed.
- Issue no. 0003: Hint at a publishing date: The journal states that it is distributed, together with Su bao 蘇報, on the first day of every lunar month of the Chinese calendar (cf. page 0001+0002, with the list of contents and further publishing information).

Nu xue bao (1903 = Volume 002):
- The issues of the second volume (= Nu xue bao) were published on the 15th day of the lunar month of the Chinese calendar.

Monthly.

Size of a leaf: unknown.
Format: 37 - 71 pages (irregular)
......... rectangular small pages; 1 page per 1 side of a leaf; vertical orientation; folding: vertically

Printed page numbers:
The pages are numbered separately for each column (this principle is not followed as rigorously in volume 002). Some columns are numbered continuously from issue to issue, e.g. leaving off at printed page number "14" in one issue, and continuing with printed page number "15" in the following issue.

Issue prices changed during the course of publication. Price changes were introduced with the following issues:

Volume 001, issues no. 0003 - 0006: (probably) no extra fee for Su bao readers
"一本報仍隨蘇報附送然只照蘇報平日銷數其非常閱蘇報偶看數日者概不附送"
"一凡常閱蘓報者准於每月初一日附送女報一本如有遺漏可向賣報人索取索取不得可來本館告知賣報人姓名本館查詢明確即由本舘補給"
"一如不閱蘇報願專購女報者每冊售足錢六十文外埠郵費照加其有躉批滿五十分者照八折核算或有預定全年（？）者亦照八折"

Volume 001, issue no. 0007: 一角 (retail price)
"本報館附設蘇報館内自第七期起無論本埠外埠概不送閱全年售洋一元零售每冊一角外埠郵費照加躉批滿十份以上者照八折覈算"

Volume 002, issue no. 0001 (1903-03-13): 一角五分 (subscription price)
"定價每冊大洋一角五分全年十一冊全定者一元五角郵稅照加"

FOUNDER:
Founder and (presumably main) editor of the magazine: Chen Xiefen 陳擷芬 (1883 - 1923)


PRE-FOUNDATION HISTORY:
The first issue of the magazine under its title "Xu chu nu bao" was published in 1902. It is still uncertain to which publication exactly the title's "xu chu" ("continued") makes reference. The Zhongguo jindai qikan bianmu huilu 中國近代期刊編目彙錄 assumes that "Xu chu nu bao" had a predecessor that was named "Nu bao" and gives 1899 as the publishing date. However, the issues of this 1899 publication are also said to have been "never seen". (Cf. Zhongguo jindai qikan bianmu huilu 中國近代期刊編目彙錄, ed. by Shanghai Library (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1965, 1980), s.v. Nübao, Nü xuebao, footnote to the entry; as cited by: Nanxiu Qian, “The Mother Nü Xuebao versus the Daughter Nü Xuebao: Generational Differences between 1898 and 1902 Women Reformers”, in Different Worlds of Discourse: New Views of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China, ed. by Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, Richard Joseph Smith (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 257, 260.)

On the other hand, Nanxiu Qian believes that the title's "xu chu" does not refer to any publication called "Nu bao", but to the "Nu xue bao" "edited and published by an all-female editorial board" in 1898 (Nanxiu Qian, “The Mother Nü Xuebao versus the Daughter Nü Xuebao: Generational Differences between 1898 and 1902 Women Reformers”, in Different Worlds of Discourse: New Views of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China, ed. by Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, Richard Joseph Smith (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 260, 273 f.).

Nanxiu Qian's assumption rests on the following arguments (cf. ibd. 273, 274):
#1 Xu chu nu bao's editor, Chen Xiefen 陳擷芬 (1883 - 1923), describes the magazine's issue no. 1 as "our debut, so it is not perfect and rather rough."
#2 Xu chu nu bao propagates the re-opening of two institutions that were - at least informally, through an overlap of personnel - also associated with the 1898 Nu xue bao: Xu chu nu bao propagates the re-opening of the women's school "Nü xuetang [女學堂] under the original superintendent, Shen Ying 沈瑛 (courtesy name Heqing 和卿), and [...] [the re-establishment of] the Nü xuehui [女學會] with the original members as its nucleus." There was an overlap of personnel between the 1898 Nu xue bao, and both the Nü xuetang and the re-convened Nü xuehui: faculty members of Nü xuetang were also members of the editorial board of the 1898 Nu xue bao, and participants in the re-convened Nü xuehui.



JOURNAL NAME (CHANGE):
Volume 001 issue 0007 (1902-10-31):
“《女報簡章》〔...〕一本報自第八期起易名女學報並加意改良務臻安善以副閱者（？ ）望之心"
Announcement on page 0002: Starting with the 8th issue (i.e. what should be the following issue), the name of the journal will change to "Nu xue bao" (contrary to secondary sources - Nanxiu Qian and others - that identify the 1st issue of the 2nd volume, in 1903, as the first issue under the new title). However, since the scans available to us lack title pages, it isn't possible to verify whether the title change actually happened already with issue no. 8. The columns still entitled "Nu bao xyz" seem to speak against that.


DISTRIBUTION:
Volume 001 issue 0003 (1902-07-05):
"《本館參訂章程》
一本報仍隨蘇報附送然只照蘇報平日銷數其非常閱蘇報偶看數日者概不附送
一凡常閱蘓報者准於每月初一日附送女報一本如有遺漏可向賣報人索取索取不得可來本館告知賣報人姓名本館查詢明確即由本舘補給
一如不閱蘇報願專購女報者每冊售足錢六十文外埠郵費照加其有躉批滿五十分者照八折核算或有預定全年（？）者亦照八折"
Volume 001 issue 0004 (1902-08-04), issue 5 (1902-09-02), issue 6 (1902-10-02):
《本館參訂章程》, similar to issue 3
Volume 001 issue 0007 (1902-10-31):
“《女報簡章》〔...〕一各省各埠如有愿代銷本報者以二成酬勞先繳半價郵費自理空函定報概不作復"
Volume 001 issue 0009 (1902-12-30):
“《女報略章》〔...〕一各省各埠如有愿代銷本報者以二成酬勞先繳半價郵費自理空函定報概不作復"


DATES OF PUBLISHING:
Volume 001 issue 0007 (1902-10-31):
“《女報簡章》〔...〕一本報每年十二冊中歷月朔出版"
Volume 001 issue 0009 (1902-12-30):
“《女報略章》〔...〕一本報每年十二冊中歷月朔出版"
Volume 002 issue 0001 (1903-03-13):
“《女學報規則》〔...〕（一）每月一囘月望發行"


(Contact details for) EDITORS, DISTRIBUTOR & PRINTER
Volume 002 issue 0001 (1903-03-13):
- 編輯所: 上海新馬路華安里, 女學報館
- 發行所: 上海三馬路, 蘇報館
- 印刷所: 上海四馬路胡家宅, 文明書局”

Volume 2 issue no. 0004 (1903-09-00):
Publishing information is printed, but unreadable due to bad scan quality.

文學 (wen xue) - LITERATURE
社會性別 (she hui xing bie) - GENDERED

OTHER DETAILS OF PUBLISHING:
- volume 1 issue 3 (1902-07-05):
《本館參訂章程》
“一本報雖有収捐之名然每期籌墊尚多深慮不能持久近承各省閨中同志函勸售資因而參酌變通定章如下
“一本報仍隨蘇報附送然只照蘇報平日銷數其非常閱蘇報偶看數日者概不附送
一凡常閱蘓報者准於每月初一日附送女報一本如有遺漏可向賣報人索取索取不得可來本館告知賣報人姓名本館查詢明確即由本舘補給
一如不閱蘇報願專購女報者每冊售足錢六十文外埠郵費照加其有躉批滿五十分者照八折核算或有預定全年（？）者亦照八折

第三期捐款 海門汪孟雲女史捐洋一元
。。。”

- volume 1 issue 4 (1902-08-04), issue 5 (1902-09-02), issue 6 (1902-10-02): 《本館參訂章程》, similar to issue 3

- volume 1 issue 7 (1902-10-31):
“《女報簡章》
一本報每年十二冊中歷月朔出版
一本報館附設蘇報館内自第七期起無論本埠外埠概不送閱全年售洋
一元零售每冊一角外埠郵費照加躉批滿十份以上者照八折覈算
一本報自第八期起易名女學報並加意改良務臻安善以副閱者（？ ）望之心
一各省各埠如有愿代銷本報者以二成酬勞先繳半價郵費自理空函定報概不作復
一中國風氣未開女學蒙稚僅特售報收回之欵虧墊尚多有願振興女學扶持本報捐助欵項者除按期致送女報外 （？）於報端豋列芳名以誌雅誼

第七期捐款
徐縷香女士捐洋五元 。。。”

- volume 1 issue 9 (1902-12-30):
“《女報略章》
一本報每年十二冊中歷月朔出版
一本報館附設蘇報館内自第七期起無論本埠外埠概不送閱全年售洋
一元零售每冊一角外埠郵費照加躉批滿十份以上者照八折覈算
一各省各埠如有愿代銷本報者以二成酬勞先繳半價郵費自理空函定報概不作復
一中國風氣未開女學蒙稚僅特售報收回之欵虧墊尚多有願振興女學扶持本報捐助欵項者除按期致送女報外 （？）於報端豋列芳名以誌雅誼

捐款者之芳名
。。。”

- volume 2 issue 1 (1903-03-13):
“《女學報規則》
（一）每月一囘月望發行
（一）定價每冊大洋一角五分全年十一冊全定者一元五角郵稅照加
（一）各處來信郵資自付未付者除銀信不收
（一）定報者須先付報資本館給收條為慿
（一）一代派所提二成酬勞

Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg
Issues held by ECPO:
Vol. 001, issue no. 0001 (1902-05-08) - Vol. 002, issue 0004 (1903-??-??)

Issues missing in ECPO:
Uncertain.

Issues damaged, in ECPO:
Missing pages: Where possible, blank images have been inserted for the missing pages among the scanned materials.