The Research of “The Young Companion” and its Art Items

[[abstract]]Published in 1920’s in Shanghai, “The Young Companion”, started a new age of Chinese Magazine History. This publisher used a new technology on shooting pictures and printing them on large magazine. There are full of attractive covers and matters in this magazine. It is different from copperplate, lithography, and zincograph. Because of the technical innovations, “The Young Companion” was very popular at that time. During 1926 to 1945, there were much different kinds of magazines to be published, but only “The Young Companion” was still there. It recorded the entirety which included news, science, technology, literature, art, and fashion in these 19 years. For all researchers analyzing this 19 years history it was a very significant clue. On the basis of “The Young Companion”, the study selects four main parts, artists, art clubs, art schools and art exhibitions. Moreover the study analyzes and discusses what kind of character “The Young Companion” plays in China and how Western art affects in China in the early twentieth century.