Science Pictorial

Science Pictorial
TypePopular science magazine
FoundedAugust 1, 1933[1]
ISSN1000-8292
OCLC number916799113
Websitewww.kxhb.com
Science Pictorial
Traditional Chinese科學畫報
Simplified Chinese科学画报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinKēxué huàbào

The Science Pictorial[2] (simplified Chinese: 科学画报; traditional Chinese: 科學畫報; pinyin: Kēxué huàbào), or Scientific Pictorial,[3] Popular Science,[4] Popular Science Monthly,[5] is a Chinese popular science magazine launched by Chinese Science Society on August 1, 1933 and based in Shanghai.[6] The ISSN number of the publication is ISSN 1000-8292.[7]

Science Pictorial was the first comprehensive popular science magazine in China,[8] and the only pictorial that continued to be published after the establishment of the People's Republic of China and still exists today.[9]

Science Pictorial is now published monthly and distributed by Shanghai Science and Technology Press.[10] It made science more accessible to the less educated readers and made a major contribution to the popularization of science in China.[11]

References

  1. ^ United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1983). Daily Report: People's Republic of China. National Technical Information Service.
  2. ^ Jon Sigurdson (22 October 2013). Technology and Science in the People's Republic of China: An Introduction. Elsevier. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-1-4831-8903-1.
  3. ^ The Asian Press and Media Directory. Press Foundation of Asia. 1980.
  4. ^ Bernadette L. Shih; MIT Libraries (1963). International Union List of Communist Chinese Serials: Scientific, Technical and Medical with Selected Social Science Titles. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  5. ^ Thomas P. Bernstein; Hua-Yu Li (2010). China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 337–. ISBN 978-0-7391-4222-6.
  6. ^ Mike Ashley (1 July 2016). Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. Oxford University Press. pp. 240–. ISBN 978-1-78138-440-4.
  7. ^ "Popular Science - National Library of Australia". National Library of Australia. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  8. ^ Daily Report: China. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1983.
  9. ^ "The oldest comprehensive popular science journal in China". China News Service. Jan 4, 2011.
  10. ^ Xin Qi (1989). Latest Chinese Journals. Modern Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-80028-058-0.
  11. ^ Liping Bu (14 July 2017). Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015. Taylor & Francis. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-1-317-54135-6.


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