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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report dated 11 March 1991 translates a XINHUA Domestic Service item from Beijing on Chinese magazine circulation. It says circulation rose after the anti-pornography, curtailment and rectification campaigns, and it gives figures for party magazines, digests and general interest titles, including FEIDIE TANSUO (Probing the Secrets of Flying Saucers) at 300,000 copies, up 60,000. A China Press and Publications Administration official credits closed distribution channels for bad magazines and a national periodicals exhibition.
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## UNCLASSIFIED Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1991 Document 1 of 10 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Document Date: 11 Mar 91 Report Type: JPRS Report. Status: [STAT] Category: [CAT] Report Date: UDC Number: Report Number: JPRS-CAR-91-017 Headline: Magazines Increasing After Anti-Pornography Purge Source Line: 0W1103115091 Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service in Chinese 0319 GMT 11 Mar 91 FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] Beijing, 11 Mar (XINHUA)--China's periodical market has a new outlook following the "'anti-pornography,'' curtailment and rectification campaigns. The statistics issued by a competent department on the circulation of this year's first issues of several hundred kinds of periodicals across the nation show that the circulation of periodicals as a whole is on the rise. Many periodicals have special characteristics ranging from content to design. Print quality has also improved. 2. Enjoying a fair circulation increase are party magazines used as tools for publicizing party opinions, current events magazines and, most popular among the reading public, digests. For example, QIUSHI [SEEKING TRUTH] has a circulation of 1.8 million copies, an increase of 200,000 copies over the same period last year; GONGCHANDANG YUAN [COMMUNISTS], 1.63 million copies, an increase of more than 300,000 copies; BAN YUE TAN [SEMIMONTHLY TALKS] has a circulation of 6 million copies; NONGMIN WENZHAI [PEASANT DIGEST], 3.54 million copies, a growth of 900,000 copies; READERS DIGEST, 2.16 million copies, an increase of 310,000 copies; and ZHONGPIAN XIAOSHUO XUANKAN [SELECTIONS FROM NOVELETTES] almost doubled. 3. In addition, the circulations of cultural and life magazines, supplementary teaching magazines, general science magazines and general interest magazines also enjoy a marked growth. For example, JIATING [FAMILY] has a circulation of 1.89 million copies, an increase of 230,000 copies over the same period last year; XIAOXUESHENG ZUOWEN [ELEMENTARY STUDENTS GUIDE TO COMPOSITION], 970,000 copies, an increase of 80,000 copies; ZHONGGUO LAONIAN [CHINA JOURNAL FOR THE ELDERLY], 380,000 copies, a growth of 80,000 copies; and FEIDIE TANSUO [PROBING THE SECRETS OF FLYING SAUCERS], 300,000 copies, an increase of 60,000 copies. 4. According to an authoritative personage from the China Press and Publications Administration, the growth of periodical circulation can be attributed to the following reasons: 5. - The distribution channels for bad magazines were stopped, Approved for Release 2/2010
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.