Frontier Affairs, created under the background of frontier crisis and national crisis in the 1940s, is a kind of journal that makes a special research on ethnics, natural environment and culture of border areas. Edited by China journal frontier policy institute in the public opinion club of frontier policy in Chongqing in 1941, it was published monthly at first. The first period of the five volume, it was published by Nanjing and it became semiyearly. The six, seven volumes are quarterly and Zhou Kuntian who worked in frontier policy institute and took charge of it. Founded for nine years, it discontinued in 1949 and in all released 7 coil wounds,58 periods and 274 articles. It was one of the publications that survive longest in the period of the republic of China. Its objective is "on the ground of sincere research and objective insights, on one hand, it elaborates the frontier policy principle to make a correct theory as reference; on the other hand, discusses practical problems, collect the actual material, it is expected to serve for frontier construction. In other words, just want to make theory and practice dissolve into one, administration can match with academic, obtained the development of frontier business. It involves relatively broad academic field,and contains a great deal of information in detailed, almost included all aspects of China's frontier policy construction at that time, such as knowledge introduction of frontier, ancient policy research on ruling border region, the collection data of frontier material and some specific Suggestions on frontier development, etc. The authors who wrote for the Frontier Affairs, not only included the officials of the government, teachers of high school, professors of university, but also the researchers of the institutes.Almost no one isn't the top researcher in the field of Chinese ethnology, Chinese anthropology, sociology, academic history as well as academic geography at that time or after that time.There is no doubt that research and recognize of the Frontier Affairs is an important work for us to summariz frontier research at the 1940's. It both have academic and practical significance for us to inheritance the border and frontier research of the previous.Their traditional,theory, methodsthinking and understanding is useful to keeping stableof border area and social and economic development.However, at present the academic study of Frontier Affairs is very weak, just made some introductions for the magazine, existing research results focus on the part of the author and Case Studies,but have no specialized research. This situation did not match the position of it.In view of this,this article try to the Frontier Affairs as a whole, to conduct a preliminary study.The whole thesis is divided into three parts:The first part is the introduction section, comments and introduced the reasons and value of why the topic is chosen. Review of the related researches and achievements, the innovation of the papers, and the difficulties as well as the methods of the solution.The second part of this paper is divided into three chapters, theme part. The first chapter states the frontier policy interpretations and how the Frontier Affairs is built, introduces the reason of publishing the public opinion of the frontier policy and the introduction of edition. The second chapter is based on the knowledge of the border region, ancient cure edge policy research, Suggestions of developing frontier, policy the content such as the collection of data on the introduction and study, the content of Frontier Affairs carry on comprehensive comments. The third chapter discusses the periodical information such as contribute quantity, identity, and give the classification of periodicals, deepen the understanding further.This paper summarized the content of Frontier Affairs in the last chapter, including the historical significance, limitations of the papers. And the significance of reform and opening policy in border areas, today's social progress as well as the importance of scientific development in China's frontier regions. |