There are 86 issues of 永安月刊 (1939-1949), the magazine of the Wing On department store on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, on Internet Archive to read and download as PDFs. A great source for exploring material and popular culture, advertising, etc. archive.org/search?query...

There are 49 issues of the historical geography journal 禹貢(1934-1937) on the Internet Archive to read or download: archive.org/search?query...

1/2 There are several collections Chinese women's magazine 婦女雜誌 (1915-31) online including: Academia Sinica: mhdb.mh.sinica.edu.tw/fnzz/index.php ECPO Heidelberg: ecpo.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/frauenzeitsc... (low res, partial) Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?... (high res, partial)

There are 78 issues of 學衡 （1922-33) on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

There are 52 issues of the Guangzhou pro-Japanese occupation period journal 新亞 (1939-44) on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

There are 39 issues of 上海婦女 on Internet Archive to read and download 1938-1940. archive.org/details/shan...

There are 78 issues of 東北大學週刊 (1926-1930 Northeastern University at Mukden/Shenyang) on the Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

There are 200 issues of 中國青年 1923-1949 on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

There are 28 issues of the Chinese women’s magazine 女聲 (1942-1944) on Internet Archive which was a Japanese controlled propaganda magazine in occupied Shanghai edited in turn by two fascinating figures: the Japanese feminist writer 田村俊子 and the CCP underground agent 關露. archive.org/search?query...

There are 163 issues of the Chinese women’s rights journal 婦女共鳴 (1929-1944) on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

遠東畫報 1940-2 was a Shanghai Nazi German propaganda magazine published in Chinese. There are almost 50 issues of it on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

There are nearly 100 issues of the Japanese-occupation period Chinese periodical 新民报半月刊 1939-43 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/details/xinm...

There are over 50 issues of the 1940-1945 Chinese language journal 婦女雜誌 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. This was a pro-Japanese propaganda magazine produced in Beiping during the Japanese occupation. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 90 issues of 新民叢報, 1902-6 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. Only some issues have dates in the metadata. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 300 issues of the travel magazine 旅行雜誌 (1927-1953) on the Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

There are almost 100 issues of 廣播週報 (most 1930s) on the Internet Archive for viewing or PDF download. In addition to its other articles, interesting to explore its radio broadcast schedules. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 400 issues of the important Shanghai weekly 生活 (1925-33) on the Internet Archive for reading and PDF download. archive.org/search?query...

6/6 And in most of the reader letters to the magazine.

5/6 The war and its hardships also feature in several of these「家庭川柳」and in the humor section.

4/6 The war in China permeates periodicals from the time. Domestic life is the front line of preserving national resources, while women outside the home contribute to wartime production. This issue focused on marriage offers advice on remarriage for war widows.

3/6 The issue includes a conversation between the actresses 李香蘭 (Li Xianglan) / 山口淑子 / Shirley Yamaguchi and 轟夕起子. In the article, Yamaguchi preserves the fiction that she is Chinese, merely picking up Japanese in school (though a laugh between them is revealing). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko...

2/6 This issue includes a 座談会 with Japanese women married to Chinese men (including from Japan's occupation puppet government leadership). The warm depictions of Sino-Japanese marital bonds put Japanese wives at the heart of cultivating Japan's wartime ambitions for a new relationship with China.

The March, 1940 issue of 主婦之友 (The Housewife's Friend) is on Internet Archive to read or download. Explore this key household magazine during Japan's full-scale invasion of China, but still before Japan's southern advance in 1941. 1/6 archive.org/details/shuf...

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8/8 Korea is also extensively discussed throughout the run of the periodical. See for example Oct 10 「朝鮮併有の方法を評す」( archive.org/details/chuo... ) or the May, 1930 「朝鮮『自治』問題」( archive.org/details/chuo... )

7/8 The periodical is rich with commentary about international politics and the evolving Japanese empire. See, for example, the Sept 1929「滿洲問題の中核」by 蠟山政道 archive.org/details/chuo...

6/8 Nitobe Inazō has a number of interesting pieces in the journal to explore, including his July 1918 「兩主義の衝突を懼る」on militarism and democracy. ( archive.org/details/chuo... )

5/8 Several important essays by Hiratsuka Raichō, including her Jan, 1913 「新らしい女」( archive.org/details/chuo... ) which preceded a series of articles in the journal, starting in June, 1913 on the「婦人問題」( archive.org/details/chuo... )

4/8 Several important works by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō in there, including his Sorrows of a Heretic (異端者の悲しみ archive.org/details/chuo... )

3/8 Many of Yoshino Sakuzō’s famous writings on political thought and on 民本主義 are found in the pages of 中央公論. For example, 憲政の本義を説いて其有終の美を済すの途を論ず (Jan, 1916 archive.org/details/chuo... ) and 民本主義の意義を說いて再び憲政有終の美を濟すの途を論ず (Jan, 1918 archive.org/details/chuo... )