Beijing Evening News

Summary

Beijing Evening News or Beijing Wanbao (Chinese: 北京晚报; pinyin: Běijīng Wǎnbào), also known as Beijing Evening Post,[1] is a Chinese language tabloid newspaper in the People's Republic of China from Beijing. It was founded on March 15, 1958. Mao Zedong wrote the title for it in 1964.

Beijing Evening News
北京晚报
Headquarters
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
FoundedMarch 15, 1958
Political alignmentChinese Communist Party
LanguageChinese
HeadquartersBeijing
OCLC number144518968
Websitebjwb.bjd.com.cn

Beijing Evening Post featured the best-selling novel Beijinger in New York by Glen Cao as a television series in 1991. In 2002, the newspaper was found to have lifted a fake article about the U.S. Congress' Supposed Move From Washington D.C. in protest of better facilities from The Onion.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Wanning Sun (21 January 2009). Maid In China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries. Routledge. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-1-134-16482-0.
  2. ^ Henry Chu (7 June 2002). "Chinese Newspaper Publishes Bogus Story From The Onion as Real Deal". tech.mit.edu. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.