T'ien Hsia Monthly

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T'ien Hsia Monthly (

John C.H. Wu. The magazine's purpose was to include works from Chinese writers introducing China to the west and works from Western writers discussing their ideas about China. The Sun Yat-sen Institute for the Advancement of Culture and Education supported the publication. Kelly & Walsh was the magazine's printer.[1]

Jonathan Hutt in China Heritage Quarterly described several of the contributors as being "China’s intellectual and literary stars."[2] Ian Gill of the South China Morning Post stated that the magazine's editors, writers, and contributors were known for living liberal lifestyles.[1] The China Heritage Quarterly stated that the magazine "reflected a positive relationship between the patriotic aspirations of some members of a Western-educated intelligentsia and a generous spirit of cosmopolitanism."[3]

History

Wen Yuan-ning and Louise Mary Newman established the magazine together after Newman, at age 19, arrived in Shanghai. Wen, of Southeast Asian Chinese origins and educated in Singapore and the United Kingdom,[1] had previously taught English literature at Peking University and Tsinghua University, and after moving to Shanghai became a contributing editor to the English-language weekly The China Critic.[3][4] Newman, a Chinese woman originally from Changsha, had been adopted by a British man,[1] Frank Newman, and his Chinese wife, Mei-lan, after her biological parents abandoned her. Called "Marylou" by her father and "Billie" by her friends,[5] she was educated in British international schools in Shanghai and previously worked at Reuters. Wen hired her after she responded to an advert for his publication.[1]

A flat on Yuyuan Road in Shanghai, not in the city's main commercial district, housed the T'en Hsia offices. Newman became known as the magazine's "backroom girl" as she edited and proofread the publication and liaised with the printer; she worked on the publication until its end. Newman later married Irishman Arthur "Paddy" Gill, a warrant officer of the

Army of the United Kingdom, on January 31, 1940 and took his family name.[1]

The staffers moved to Hong Kong in circa 1937 due to the

Japanese invasion of Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Louise Mary Gill was captured and put in an internment camp, while the editors escaped to the area known as "Free China".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Gill, Ian (2018-05-17). "From belle époque Shanghai to occupied Hong Kong, the literati who broke down cultural barriers". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  2. ISSN 1833-8461
    . Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  3. ^ a b "The Heritage of T'ien Hsia, All-Under-Heaven." China Heritage Quarterly (ISSN 1833-8461). China Heritage Project, The Australian National University. No. 19, September 2009. Retrieved on July 30, 2018.
  4. ^ Christopher Rea, "Introduction," in Wen Yuan-ning, and others. Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2018).
  5. ^ Gill, Ian (2016-05-19). "My grandfather's amazing life in China and how he found my mother". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
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