It was common for magazines in the 1920s to print poetry contributions from their readers. The poems were usually paeans to some aspect of every day life and were usually stylistically similar to romanticist poets from the early 19th century.

The contributtion ”Daybreak in the Suburb” was (in its English version) printed in the English-language Shanghai newspaper North China Daily News on March 21, 1927.

The illustration ”Woman in the Morning” was made by Zhang Ling-tao for a Chinese periodical in 1931.