Science Pictorial
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| Type | Popular science magazine |
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| Founded | August 1, 1933[1] |
| ISSN | 1000-8292 |
| OCLC number | 916799113 |
| Website | www.kxhb.com |
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| Traditional Chinese | 科學畫報 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 科学画报 | ||||||
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The Science Pictorial[2] (simplified Chinese: 科学画报; traditional Chinese: 科學畫報; pinyin: Kēxué huàbào), or Scientific Pictorial,[3] Popular Science,[4] Popular Science Monthly,[5] is a Chinese popular science magazine launched by Chinese Science Society on August 1, 1933 and based in Shanghai.[6] The ISSN number of the publication is ISSN 1000-8292.[7]
Science Pictorial was the first comprehensive popular science magazine in China,[8] and the only pictorial that continued to be published after the establishment of the People's Republic of China and still exists today.[9]
Science Pictorial is now published monthly and distributed by Shanghai Science and Technology Press.[10] It made science more accessible to the less educated readers and made a major contribution to the popularization of science in China.[11]
