As a comprehensive academic journal incepted in 1955 , Journal of Sichuan University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) is under the administration by the People's Republic of China Ministry of Education, and organized by Sichuan University. As a bimonthly periodical at present, as of the end of 2013, the Journal has been totally published by 189 issues. For nearly 60 years, the Journal has always insisted on the publication approach that integrates both academic quality and social care. With the expectation of rigorous and simple magazine style as well as the mission to promote international academic exchanges, the Journal enjoys high reputation in the academic circles: one of the CSSCI source journals, the National Chinese core journals and China’s Humanities and Social Sciences core journals, one double-effect journal of China Periodicals Phalanx, the national Social Science Fund journal, and on selected periodical under the quality journal engineering by the Ministry of Education.