South Seas Halfmonthly ‘Double Ten’ Special Issue (Nan Yang Bao Shuang Shi Te Kan 南洋报双十特刊)

Title
South Seas Halfmonthly ‘Double Ten’ Special Issue (Nan Yang Bao Shuang Shi Te Kan 南洋报双十特刊)
Year/Period
1948
Region
Singapore and Hong Kong
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 25.0 x 20.0 cm,
Object size: 25.5 x 19.0 x 0.2 cm
Accession No.
2024-01202
Credit Line
Collection of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

This is the ‘double ten’ (Shuang Shi 双十) issue of the publication, 南洋报 South Seas Halfmonthly. The magazine features a compilation of articles and advertisements commemorating the National Day of the Republic of China, also known as Double Tenth or Double Ten day. The day commemorates the start of the Wuchang Uprising (Wu Chang Qi Yi 武昌起义) on 10 October 1911, which sparked the fall of the Qing dynasty and led to the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912. Based on the information on the cover, the editor-in-chief of this magazine is a person named Zeng Bu Sheng (曾步生).