Today’s World Magazine Founded

Source: Remembering a Publisher: The American Imperialists’ Today’s World
From: YLib Remote Flow Knowledge Network
Date: August 10, 2003   Author: Fu Yue-an

Today’s World (*Today’s World*) launched on March 15, 1952, initially as a biweekly publication; from May 1973, beginning with issue 507, it became a monthly. It ceased publication with issue 598 in 1980, after twenty-eight years and ten months. It was one of several Chinese-language propaganda publications established by the U.S. State Department in the Far East. Over the following two-plus decades, it was enormously popular thanks to good paper quality, attractive layout, low price (initially distributed free, later priced at just one New Taiwan Dollar per issue), and the high quality of its first-hand reports on scientific developments, world affairs, social trends, and literary content. It became the preeminent magazine in the Hong Kong and Taiwan market, and its embedded American values deeply shaped Taiwanese readers’ worldview.

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External Links

• Today’s World (Source: China Encyclopedia)
• Today’s World and Me (Source: Chen Da-dun’s Works Collection)
• Glimpses of Cold War U.S. Cultural Propaganda — On Today’s World and Others (Source: Chen Da-dun’s Works Collection)
• Cold War-Era Literature: Modernist Literature Under U.S. Aid Cultural Transmission (Source: National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Taiwan Literature)
• A Forty-Three-Year-Old Magazine Treasured by a Nantou Resident — The Cover Features Lian Fang-yu (Source: Central News Agency)