Labor (magazine)

Labor (simplified Chinese: 《劳动》; traditional Chinese: 《勞動》; pinyin: Láodòng) was a Chinese anarchist magazine founded in March 1918, and the first labor magazine in China. Its founders included Wu Zhihui, Liang Bingxin and Liu Shixin (younger brother of Liu Shifu).

History

On the eve of the May Fourth Movement, anarchism was widespread in China.

In March 1918, Wu Zhihui, Liang Bingxian and others founded the monthly magazine in Shanghai to promote the labor movement. Wu Zhihui set the purpose of the Labor as "to respect labor; to advocate laborism; to maintain proper labor and exclude improper labor ... to promote the unity of laborers in China and the world to solve social problems". In the same month, the magazine published an article praising the October Revolution.

The magazine published only five issues and was then discontinued.

References

Sources

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• Xiong, Qiuliang (2019). "五四知识分子对"劳工神圣"的认知与实践" [The May Fourth Intellectuals' Perception and Practice of the "Sanctity of Labor"] (PDF). 马克思主义研究 [Studies on Marxism] (in Simplified Chinese) (4): 56–67. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
• Zhu, Yuhe; Cai, Lesu; et al., eds. (2000). 毛泽东与20世纪中国 [Mao Zedong and 20th Century China] (in Simplified Chinese). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. ISBN 978-7-302-03809-2. Retrieved 2022-06-21.