Ming Pao Monthly
Ming Pao Monthly is a Chinese-language intellectual journal in Hong Kong, covering the humanities, scholarship, culture, politics, and thought in the Sinosphere.
History
Ming Pao Monthly was founded by Jin Yong in 1966, hoping to pass on the torch of traditional Chinese culture. He recalled:After the founding of Ming Pao Monthly, Jin Yong appointed himself as the editor-in-chief. Later, Hu Juren served as the editor-in-chief for 13 years. In 1991, Pan Yaoming began to take over as the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao Monthly.
Starting in the summer of 1967, the journal published the Collection of Documents on the Cultural Revolution of the Chinese Communist Party, which consisted of six volumes and contained more than three million words. It also published Zhang Guotao's "My Memoirs".
China's earliest scar literature, such as "Big Blue Fish", "County Magistrate Yin", and "Geng Er in Beijing" written by Chen Ruoxi, were all published in Ming Pao Monthly in the 1970s. Nie Hualing's "Sang Qing and Tao Hong" was serialized in Taiwan's United Daily News, but was cut short for political reasons. It was also published in full in Ming Pao Monthly.
From 2014 to 2018, Ming Pao Monthly received funding from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to add a cultural supplement for totaling 49 issues. From 2022 to 2023, Ming Pao Monthly received support from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's to add the Ming Yue Bay cultural supplement for totaling 12 issues, with the title of the publication written by Jin Yaoji.