Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.1, 2019

Chinese Modern Knowledge Transition from the Perspective of Media Reform

(Abstract)

Huang Dan

Knowledge and journals are of great importance of understanding Modern Chinese transition. Books and journals are different media and stand for different knowledge systems. Traditionally, there was a pattern of knowledge production and order structure focusing on “book” in China. Since the modern time, journals, representing the external culture, changed the existing order of knowledge system and influenced China’s reform in modern time. The communicating practice of book and journal reminded us that the process of systematization of a new media and the new structure of institutional media, are an important driving force of knowledge and social transition, and are regarded as a new perspective to understand “great changes unseen in 3000 years.”