Continuity and Rupture： Rethinking the Tradition of University Journals in China——Based on a Comparison of the Traditions of Chinese and Western Academic Journals
Zhu Jian1 Zhong Weimin2
(1.Editorial Department of Journal of Nanjing University， Nanjing 210093；2.Editorial Department of Journal of Tsinghua University， Beijing 100084)
Abstract：As the source of the academic journal tradition， many of the pioneering contributions of Philosophical Transactions were inherited by later European and American academic journals， and with the spread of Western academics， it has shaped the academic journals of late-developing countries to a certain extent. The Chinese university journals， which have inherited the basic mission of spreading academics， are not a direct transplant of Western academic journals， but have modified some genes， grafting the relationship between academic journals and academic communities onto the relationship with the host universities. This has transformed the public platform attributes that academic journals should have into a window and garden for the host universities. To name the journal with the university title and the comprehensiveness and introversion have become both inevitable and the only choice. Such “transgenic” is extremely meaningful to the growth of universities in their childhood and the construction of their public image. The contribution made by journals to the growth of early universities is irreplaceable and indelible. However， this has also brought difficulties and obstacles to the development of the journals themselves. Although there were attempts to transform themselves into open professional journals in the 1930s， the journals have not been able to bid farewell to their childhood as a whole. The tension and conflict between the positioning of windows and gardens and the attributes of public platforms are ultimately unavoidable. As a result， at several historical junctures when the fate of universities changed， the former overwhelmed the latter without exception， and the journals had to remain in their initial state. Since the late 1970s， this state has been fixed through institutionalization. With the launch of constructing world-class universities in the 1990s， competition has unfolded at the level of international academic platforms. Journals that have sacrificed their public platform attributes and severed their blood ties with the academic community have been unable to keep up with the pace of university progress and have gradually become marginalized.
朱 剑 仲伟民. 延续与断裂：中国高校学报传统再议——基于中西学术期刊传统的比较[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2024, 63(6): 165-183.
Zhu Jian Zhong Weimin. Continuity and Rupture： Rethinking the Tradition of University Journals in China——Based on a Comparison of the Traditions of Chinese and Western Academic Journals. journal1, 2024, 63(6): 165-183.
2024, Vol. 63 
