The first comprehensive Chinese university journal published in English: the Tsing Hua Journal.

The Tsing Hua Journal sponsored by Tsing Hua University is investigated by reading, comparing, and analysing original literature about it. It is concluded that it was the first English-language journal of natural science and social science published by a Chinese university. The early establishment of an editorial department, of exchange with European and American journals, and of its inclusion of abstracts of foreign papers, demonstrate its international aims. Through its parallel Chinese- and English-language versions it aimed to achieve an exchange of knowledge between China and the West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]