In the process of editing, according to the regularities of journals, it is vital to establish scientific editorial ideology , decide on the main direction of disciplines and select frontier subjects so as to make academic journals perform special media functions in the diversity of periodicals.

The author, Wu Jingzi, by portraying many editors and satirizing them, showed his editorial concepts, which are of great realistic significance today.

The change and inheritance of the editing idea of academic journals from information digitization;

The change in compiling idea from the politically-cultured complex in A Chinese-English Dictionary(1978,1995)to the information-oriented cultural idea in New Age Chinese-English Dictionary leads to the change from regarding a dictionary as a political teaching tool to regarding it as an academic product out of relatively independent cultural study.