![]() Cover of Duzhe from 2008 | |
Frequency | Bimonthly |
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Publisher | Gansu People's Press |
Founded | 1981 |
First issue | March 1981 |
Country | China |
Based in | Lanzhou, Gansu |
Language | Chinese |
Website | www.duzhe.com/ |
ISSN | 1005-1805 |
Duzhe ( Chinese: 读者; pinyin: Dúzhě; lit. 'The Readers') is a bimonthly Chinese general interest magazine. [1] It is among the most widely circulated [2] and the leading magazines in the People's Republic of China. [3]
Duzhe was first published in Lanzhou in March 1981. [4] The magazine has its headquarters in Lanzhou, [5] and is published on a biweekly basis [6] by the Gansu People's Press. The magazine includes original articles, condensed articles reprinted from other magazines, book excerpts, and collections of jokes, anecdotes, quotations and other short pieces. [6]
During the first half of the 2000s the magazine was published bi-monthly. [7] In 2003 Duzhe was among the top five magazines in China with a circulation of 3,000,000. [8] The same year it was also the 4th best selling magazine in the world, after Reader's Digest, National Geographic and Time. [7]
Official website (in Chinese)