通过文献调研与考证,将晚清至五四时期的中国体育期刊发展分为发端时期、发展时期。认为体育期刊在清代末年逐渐取代报纸、图书等媒介形式,成为传播强身健体、强国强种、传播体育学术、促成体育学科生长、促进体育教育的重要媒介及科学文献,应还其在中国体育新闻事业和体育学中的应有地位。
Through carrying out investigation documents, it has been considered that there had established 114 sports periodicals among 1909 and 1949. Especially,there had appeared the first sports periodical "sports fields" which was established by Xu Yibing. It describes the method of interpreting used in the first part;the third part uses the methond of interpreting to analyze Chinese sports journals in the period of New Culture Movement. It gets conclusion that sports periodical gradually replaced newspaper, book to become important media to communicate the viewpoint of strengthening body.