Research On Editorial Characteristics Of The Renaissance

The Renaissance is a kind of monthly magazine created by Peking University students during The May 4th Movement, which introduce the Western academic science and thoughts into China and play a very important role in spreading new thought , literature as soon as its foundation. It has had a great impact among young people at that time, including Lu Xun and Hu Shi, Li Dazhao, Cai Yuanpei etc., who shows their support and praise. The magazine pays great attention to rebuild the youth thought to adapt the current development, showing a unique and distinct editorial characteristic.The modern editing study believed that"in the socio-cultural relations, the author is an element in editing interpersonal contact and the beginning of editorial practice."The paper started with the analysis of the authors of the Renaissance, and discovered that the Renaissance'editors and authors always presents"the same point and interest", which makes the Renaissance a stable editorial feature and also makes a sightless. The Renaissance had"Study returned"after The May 4th Movement may have certain contacting with its this characteristic. Secondly, the content of the Renaissance has a"concerned about the new trends of thoughts and became more serious criticism"characteristic. It pays a lot attention to the new ideological thoughts mostly is the Western thoughts, especially focus on academic criticism. Thirdly, the Renaissance pays attention to academic science Western and Chinese balanced. It doesn't oppose"the indiscriminate westernization"and wants"the reorganization cultural heritage", in the exploration academic method aspect, it ahead of other well-known publications. Fourthly, the Renaissance opposed to the feudalistic formality, and concentrate on the feudalistic ethics, women's issues, as well as new and old moral values. Finally, the Renaissance pays attention to the literature, and promote the new vernacular literature development. The Renaissance'editors thought that"literature is a way of thinking", and it have had a definite positive significance in the new literary exploration. Overall, the Renaissance Combine degeneration with regeneration which shows the editors rational thought.Compare to the other famous magazines, there are many similarities and differences between the Renaissance and New youth, and there are entirely different editorial ideas between the Renaissance and Oriental magazine. Concerning the reader, New youth favors the older, the senior intellectuals, but the Renaissance focus on the young students; in the content, New youth stresses political, ideological, theoretical expositions, but the Renaissance biased towards the thoughts, academic science and literature; Moreover, the Renaissance stresses to the academic method exploration.The Renaissance requests the publication to have certain objective, opposes"disorderly", but Oriental magazine actually wants compatible and gathers, makes a"daily life of essential goods'grocery store". From the tool significance, the former accelerates the historical development, But for the development of the journal, the latter is a more mature thinking of running.The editorial Characteristics of the Renaissance give us some enlightenment, it position accurately, adapt to the reader's psychological, attract readers with new viewpoint, criticism and"contradictory", which brings the reflection and the inspiration for our today's edition practice.