Three English Journals in Republican Beijing and the Internationalization of Chinese Scholarship

GU Jun

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236102

Volume 6 Issue 1

Mar. 2023

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GU Jun. Three English Journals in Republican Beijing and the Internationalization of Chinese Scholarship[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(1): 23-41. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236102

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GU Jun. Three English Journals in Republican Beijing and the Internationalization of Chinese Scholarship[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(1): 23-41. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236102

GU Jun. Three English Journals in Republican Beijing and the Internationalization of Chinese Scholarship[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(1): 23-41. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236102

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Three English Journals in Republican Beijing and the Internationalization of Chinese Scholarship

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236102

GU Jun^,

Beijing Foreign Studies University

Received Date: 2022-10-22
Accepted Date: 2023-02-08

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Due to the efforts of a large number of returned Western-educated Chinese students, Republican Beijing produced a variety of English journals, as cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries deepened after the 1911 Revolution. So far, these journals have not been systematically studied either at home or abroad. As the first attempt, this paper conducts a general survey of three major journals, namely The Chinese Social and Political Science Review, Bulletin of the Catholic University of Peking, and The Yenching Journal of Social Studies, in terms of their founding process, authorial team and main contents. These journals have witnessed the internationalization of traditional Chinese scholarship on literature, history and philosophy, as well as the rise and prosperity of emerging disciplines such as sociology, political science and law in China. Dozens of Chinese contributors to these journals were characterized by profound academic attainments and high proficiency in English, but in the past few decades many of them have been either neglected, or noticed merely through their Chinese works rather than English ones, which deserve renewed attention.This paper chooses several of them as examples of returned students for analysis, with special attention to their role in knowledge transfer and China's academic modernization. Compared with their Chinese counterparts, the three English journals gained more international fame and gave a stronger boost to Beijing's image as an academic center. Against the backdrop of domestic and international turmoil facing Republican China, their achievement and performance should be given more credit, and could provide useful reference for the enhancement of China's soft power today in at least three aspects:first, how to explain Chinese politics, society, history and culture in English; second, how to translate Chinese academic works into English and expand their influence internationally; third, how to establish academic leadership through English journals based in China.

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