The Central Guoshu Institute Periodicals and Their Social Functions

This study conducted the analysis of the periodicals of Central Guoshu Institute and their social functions.It holds that Central Guoshu Institute plays a very important role in the wushu consciousness transformation, wushu inheritance and dissemination, the theoretical research and education as well as the ideological inheritance.The established 3 periodicals, that is, Proceedings of Central Guoshu Institute; The Central Guoshu Periodical on Every Ten Days; and the Guoshu Weekly, contributed a lot to the development of modern wushu.It strongly promoted the trend of wushu-loving thought and removed obstacles for wushu's going to the road of competition.And, it also contributed a lot in the integration, succession and spread of wushu techniques, pushing the wushu practitioners toward the understanding of wushu from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences.