编辑《中国思潮评论》最直接的目标,是为了推动和展示对于近代以来尤其是20世纪中国社会思潮的学术研究。中国现代思想文化的研究,可以有多种进路,“思潮研究”即是其中重要之一途。其原因大约有三:第一,与人物个案、主义或问题之进路相比,“思潮研究”更具有历史整体性,它要求从现象出发,注意到思想观念和社会心理变迁之来龙去脉。第二,它不能停留在一般学科史 The most direct goal of editorial “China Trends Review” is to promote and display academic research on the trend of Chinese society in modern times, especially in the 20th century. There are many ways in which the study of Chinese modern ideology and culture can go. There are three reasons for this: First, compared with the way of individual cases, doctrines or problems, “research in ideological trends” is more historical in nature. It requires starting from phenomena and noticing the ins and outs of ideological and psychological changes. Second, it can not stay in the general academic history