新潮社是新文化运动中北大学生自办的社团，其创办的《新潮》杂志是北大学生自办的第一个新文化刊物。从1919年1月创刊到1922年终刊，共发行了3卷12期，内容涉及白话文学、人生问题、社会问题、西方现代科学知识等，形式上则包括了小说、诗歌、戏剧、文论、杂文、评论、随感等。《新潮》是在《新青年》影响下产生的，但是在它的发展过程中，它又力图超越《新青年》，开辟自己的一片新天地，比如他们更强调启蒙的意义，更强调对学术理想的构筑等。在现有的研究中，基本上仍关注于《新青年》和《新潮》之间的承继关系，对于两者之间的相异则较少论述，因此忽略了对《新潮》的独特性的关注。实际上，《新潮》的独特性在中国新文化发展中具有承上启下的作用。首先，《新潮》不论是对思想革命和社会改革的倡导、对西学的介绍，还是对新文学创作的回应，都是在启蒙的烛照下进行的，而且新潮社同人对启蒙的理解并没有因为五四运动而中断，反而更加强化。他们关于启蒙的思考影响了他们个人以后的选择，而在中国此后的文化发展中，我们也可以看到，启蒙的话题是一直贯穿于其中。 其次，《新潮》对科学的认识，以及在此基础上对学术的认知和构建的学术理想展现了新潮社同人为中国寻找另外一条道路的尝试，即力图在新学术中建立新文化的学术救国道路。这种尝试使得他们当中大多数人此后走上了学术研究的道路且都有所建树，开启了学院文化的先河。基于此，本论文试图考察《新潮》所展现的独特性，以此探讨它在中国新文化中的作用和位置。本论文除了绪言和结语外，共分为五章。第一章，作为引子，介绍新潮社、《新潮》的缘起和发展，同时从地缘、学缘、参与活动等方面分析社员之间的关系、各自的兴趣爱好等，认为他们在《新潮》创办之前业已表现出一定的独特性，这些独特性不仅形成了他们结社办杂志的基础，也保证了此后他们对《新潮》的发展方向能保持较为一致的看法，这对《新潮》和新潮社的发展具有重要的作用。第二章，分析《新潮》上关于思想革命和社会改革的文章，涉及人生观、国民性、社会改革、封建家庭制度、妇女解放、教育改革等问题, 指出他们在批判的同时也注重从学理的层面上去探讨社会问题。第三章，分析《新潮》上关于西方现代知识的介绍，着重讨论《新潮》对科学的认识，指出新潮社同人把对科学的理解具体落实到对现代知识的推崇以及建构新学术和新文化的努力上，其中包括把对西学的关注范围扩大到哲学、逻辑、心理学、社会学、宗教学等领域，以及提出用科学的精神整理国故的设想和实践。这些是新潮社同人此期对知识学术理解的总结，同时也成为他们以后各自发展的起点。第四章，分析《新潮》的新文学创作，讨论新文学理论、小说、新诗创作和翻译文学，指出它们对此后文学发展的影响。如在理论上深入探讨如何创作新文学，在小说创作上关注现实，开启问题小说的先河；在新诗创作上自省，并开拓新诗的创作领域；在翻译文学方面，在《新青年》的影响下身体力行，引领了此后文学研究会的翻译文学。第五章，分析五四运动后的《新潮》的转向。五四运动过后，《新潮》除了仍保持强烈的现实关注意识之外，更注重对学术知识的介绍和探讨。本章重点探讨新潮社同人在五四运动后对启蒙的反思，对革命和文化运动的看法等，认为他们基于启蒙立场上的种种反思不仅影响着《新潮》的发展，而且也影响了同人此后发展道路的选择，进而在某种程度上影响着中国现代文化的发展。

The New Trend Union was a student group of Peking University in the new cultural movement, and The Renaissance issued by it was the first new cultural magazine which was edited by the students. The context of The Renaissance was colourful, including the new literature, the problem of life and society, the western modern knowledge and so on. It was issued under the influences of The New Youth, but in its development, it tried to transcend The New Youth and created its new world, such as emphasizing on the meaning of enlightenment and the construction of academy ideals. In the current studies, the researchers mostly still paid the successive relationship between it and The New Youth, but neglected its uniqueness. Actually, the uniqueness of The Renaissance was a connecting link in the development of the new culture.First, The Renaissance’s thoughts such as the advocating of the thinking revolution and social reform, the introduction to western modern knowledge, the creation of new literature were initiated by enlightenment. And its understanding of enlightenment was not interrupted by the May Fourth Movement. The thinking on enlightenment deeply influenced its members’ choices in the future; meanwhile, the topic on enlightenment always lied in the development of new culture.Second, the cognition of learning and the academic ideals of The Renaissance were on the basis of its special understanding of science, and this indicated that it attempted to search for another way for China, namely, saving nation through academy. The attempting on constructing the new culture from the new academy made its members choose and devote themselves into the studies,and this initiated the college culture.According to this, the thesis tries to observe the uniqueness of The Renaissance and discusses what role the uniqueness plays in the new culture. The thesis consists of five chapters in addition to the foreword and the conclusion.Chapter One introduces the history of the New Trend Union and The Renaissance, and analyzes the members’ relationship from their interests, activities and so on. It shows that they had fomed their own uniqueness before The Renaissance published. This uniqueness made them found the union and ensure they would keep the same opinion of the development of The Renaissance. Chapter Two analyzes the articles about the thinking revolution and social reform, including the outlook on life, the humanity, the social reform, the feudalism, the women’s liberation, the education reform, etc, and points out that besides the criticism, it also concentrated on discussing the problems from theory. Chapter Three analyzes the science on The Renaissance and focuses on its cognition of science, points out that it made the science concrete implementation of the admiration of the modern knowledge and the attempting of constructing new academy and new culture, including their unique understanding of philosophy, logic, psychology, sociology, region and the ideas and practice of rearranging of national heritage by the scientific spirit. All of these were not only its summary of the knowledge in the new cultural movement, but also became the starting point of its members’ development in the future.Chapter Four analyzes the new literature including the new literary theory, fiction, new poems and translated literature, and points out their influences on the development of literature. Chapter Five discusses the reasons why The Renaissance changed after the May Fourth Movement and focuses on their reflection of May Fourth. Although it kept paying strong attention to the reality, it emphasized on the introduction to the knowledge. From the analysis of their reflection on enlightenment, opinion on revolution, etc, it shows that what they thought and chose after May Fourth had an influence on modern Chinese culture.