Information for Danwei's articles is generally drawn from the Chinese media - names like Legal Mirror, The Beijing News, and Chongqing Evening News appear frequently in the "Links and Sources" section at the ends of posts. Here, we present the Danwei readership with our reading list.

This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of Chinese media entities - such a thing would be drowned in the Daily newspapers published by party committees of every county seat across the country; rather, the newspapers, magazines, TV stations and websites listed here are those that we at Danwei read regularly, have a passing familiarity with, or simply feel are worthy of note.

This list will be expanded and updated periodically. Danwei readers are welcome to clue us in to other sources we ought to be aware of.

Note: ☆ = closely affiliated with the government or party

See Know Your Chinese Newspapers: Tabloids and broadsheets on Danwei for front page scans and more information about Beijing newspapers.

☆People's Daily (人民日报)

National voice of the Party. Also available in an English version.

Beijing Times (京华时报)

Part of People's Daily group but edited and managed like commercial newspapers such as Beijing Youth Daily.

Southern Metropolitan Daily (南方都市报)

Southern Weekend (南方周末)

known for investigative exposés and a revolving door that lands editors in jail

☆China Youth Daily (中国青年报)

Published since 1951 and distributed nationwide, it has always had a large reader base because universities and high schools were forced to subscribe. Nonetheless, it is a good and well-respected Chinese newspaper. According to their website, China Youth Daily has sells about half a million copies every day. The China Youth Daily is a different entity from Beijing Youth Daily.

☆Guangming Daily (光明日报)

Guangming Online also has a comprehensive index of newspapers and media groups.

    Listed its 'advertising division' on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2004.

Beijing Youth Daily (北京青年报)

(Legal) Mirror (法制晚报)

(they've taken 'Mirror' off the nameplate and masthead recently)

The First (竞报)

New paper launched in late 2004 and aligned somehow with the Beijing Olympic movement. It's a joint venture between the Beijing Daily Group, Beijing Youth Daily, and the Shanghai Media Group. Boasting a large quantity of photos and sports news, its quality has improved markedly since its early issues.

Current Affairs Magic Mirror (时事魔镜)

Current affairs cartoon magazine for teenagers. See Danwei's impressions of an early issue.

☆Beijing Daily(北京日报)

Beijing Morning Post (北京晨报)

Beijing Evening News (北京晚报)

The current issue is accessible off of the Beijing Daily front page.

The First (竞报)

New paper launched in late 2004 and aligned somehow with the Beijing Olympic movement. It's a joint venture between the Beijing Daily Group, Beijing Youth Daily, and the Shanghai Media Group. Boasting a large quantity of photos and sports news, its quality has improved markedly since its early issues.

Beijing Daily Messenger (信报)

Also known as Star Daily, its full name is 北京娱乐信报, Beijing Entertainment Messenger, and it does have quite a large section of entertainment news.

The Beijing News (新京报)

Southern Media Group and Guangming Daily join venture; according to rumor, soon to be sold to the Beijing Youth Daily Group. On a quest to become the New York Times of China.

Xinmin Evening News (新民晚报)

Oriental Morning Post (东方早报)

☆Jiefang Daily (解放日报)

Press organ of the Shanghai Party

Chongqing Evening News (重庆晚报

Yangcheng Evening News (Guangzhou) (羊城晚报)

National Business Daily 《每日经济新闻》

Joint venture between Jiefang Daily and Chengdu Daily newspaper groups; publishes eight pages apiece on domestic and international business news. Based in Shanghai.

China Business News 《第一财经日报》

First Chinese business daily, aims "to be the most influential, authoritative and respected financial daily newspaper in China, matching the future of Chinese economic development, and equivalent to world-class papers like the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times" (and it has engraved head-shots to demonstrate its 'equivalence'). But it has a reputation for being boring.

21st Century Business Herald 《21世纪经济报道》

Southern Media Group publishes this paper twice weekly. Lengthy articles and in-depth industry analysis. Head-shots are ink drawings rather than Journal-style engravings.

The Economic Observer (经济观察报)

Business weekly. Self described as "China's leading weekly for economy, politics, and culture," the pink color makes its FT-knockoff status pretty obvious. Regular special features are particularly well-done, with The Economic Observer Review of Books completing the cultured air of this paper. The online version charges a fee except for a small number of free articles (although the PDFs make it to the P2P networks pretty quickly, which says something about its reputation). There's also an English version with occasional translations of selected articles.

China Business (中国经营报)

Business weekly. Published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which gives it access to lots of data and research.

☆Xinhuanet (新华网)

Xinhua's English service is at ChinaView

Baidu (百度)

Baidu News

Baidu News Ticker

Sina (新浪网)

News

China News

Entertainment

Most commented news articles

Netease (网易)

News

Sohu (搜狐)

News

Entertainment

Media MapExcellent index of local publications across the country

Tom

News

Entertainment

Eastday (东方网)

Eastday homepage

☆Outlook (瞭望新闻周刊)

Official newsweekly. Articles hosted directly on Xinhuanet.com.

☆Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊)

Outlook spinoff also run by Xinhua; it's meant to be a quasi-independent, "alternative" news-weekly.

☆Globe (环球)

Xinmin Weekly (新民周刊)

Caijing (财经)

China's most respected business magazine, known for occasional muckraking stories - Caijing English Newsletter

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊)

New Weekly (新周刊)

New Times Weekly (新世纪周刊)

Life Week(三联生活周刊)

Also on Sina

Worldview (看世界)

Window on the South (南风窗)

Southern People Weekly (南方人物周刊)

Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊)

(Link may expire)

Modern Weekly (周末画报)

Modern Media also publishes The Outlook Magazine (新视线) and City Magazine (号外).

FHM (男人装)

Cosmo (时尚·COSMOPOLITAN)

Esquire (时尚·ESQUIRE)

The group also publishes Bazaar, National Geographic Traveler, Men's Health, Good Housekeeping, etc.

Ma(n)gazine (名牌)

"mangazine·名牌 is the only fashion magazine in China whose target readers are no one but highclass men in the society. It aims to start a elite time and define the elite class in China."

City Pictorial (城市画报)

Southern Media Group also publishes Southern People Weekly (above) and several newspapers.

Men's Style (魅力先生)

Figure (健体风尚)

(Check out the CD they're giving away with this one!

Glamour (魅力风尚)

These are gay or highly metrosexual magazines; the pages linked above are pretty much empty — use the publisher's front page for more information.

Popular series of girly-girl magazines. Launched as "WomanFriend" in 1988, it's grown to three main editions on the mainland:

Cute (女友校园版)

Style (女友花园版)

college edition

Love (女友家园版)

home edition

Other editions:

Man (男友): Appears to be defunct

The Group has also expanded internationally, with editions in Australia, North America, Southeast Asia, and Europe

Vogue China

Produced by Condé Nast in cooperation with the state-owned China Pictorial Publishing House

mENbox (时尚君子)

Occasionally daring gay magazine.

Gentlemen (君子风尚)

No website.

Rayli (瑞丽)

Fashion magazine empire, flagship publication Rayli is probably the Chinese glossy magazine with the highest circulation nationwide.

ViVi (昕薇)

Voyage (New Traveler) (新旅行)

Touch (TOUCH双休日潮流周刊)

No web presence

Banana (演艺周刊)

Tabloid / celebrity gossip weekly; no online presence at the moment.

OK!

Mainland Chinese version of the international trash magazine.

Big Star (明星·BIGSTAR)

Paparazzi photos and gossip every Friday. It's divided into two sections, "Hot!" (tagline: "Entertainment gossip stops here") and "Top!" (tagline: "Live like a star") whose pages are numbered separately.

Titan Sports (体坛周报)

China's most successful sports bi-weekly newspaper. It started off as a photocopied football fanzine in the 1990s, distributed for free in Changsha, capital of the Central Southern province of Hunan. In a few years, riding the wave of the growing interest towards football and sports in general, Titan Sports became the number 1 publication for sports and one of the best-selling newspapers in the entire country. It's jointly published by the Hunan Art and Culture Publishing House (湖南文艺出版社) and Titan Publishing House (体坛出版社).

Sports Weekly(足球周刊)

A glossy, highly successful magazine entirely dedicated to football, produced by the Titan Sports Group. It is one of China's best magazines in terms of quality of content, pictures and design. It boasts a collaboration with the prestigious France Football magazine.

• Channel 1: General News. This channel produces the main evening news broadcast, and usually has the first run of serious, patriotic TV series.
• Channel 2: Business.
• Channel 3: Arts.
• Channel 4: International (Chinese language)
• Channel 5: Sports
• Channel 6: Movies
• Channel 7: Military and Agriculture (runs kids' programs during the afternoon)
• Channel 8: Dramatic series
• Channel 9: International (English propaganda)
• Channel 10: Education
• Channel 11: Peking Opera
• Channel 12: Society and Law
• In addition to the numbered channels, there are also:
  • 24-hour news
  • Children's channel
  • Music
  • French and Spanish - dubbed rebroadcasts of CCTV 4 and 9

Phoenix TV and Phoenix News & Finance (凤凰卫视/凤凰资讯)

Mandarin language broadcasts out of Hong Kong. Program guide is available.

StarTV (星空卫视)

Product of Rupert Murdoch's Asia arm, Star Group Ltd. Runs shameless knockoffs of western TV, crass humor shows from Taiwan, and old Hong Kong movies.

SunTV (阳光卫视)

Reworked History channel programming, panel discussions from Chinese intellectuals, and infomercials. Not so widely available.

Channel V

Music videos.

Magshow

A directory of print magazines with images of the current issue

Gotoread.com

a directory of print publications with a useful function that allows you to look up a Chinese publication license and find out what magazine is using it