This article examines the content of the Journal of Comparative Education, published by the Chinese Comparative Education Society-Taipei. Periodical analysis is an important means of understanding the content and development of a research community or academic forum. The conclusions include: 1. the discussion of theory and methodology in this journal has gradually developed from an understanding approach to an analytical orientation; 2. in terms of national contexts, the majority of articles published focus on a single country; 3. changes can be seen in the issues that have attracted research attention during different stages of development of the field of comparative education; 4. in terms of research strategies, data collection has been implemented through literature reviews, comparative analysis and field research, while analysis has been primarily qualitative, followed by combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods, and finally purely quantitative approaches. The renaming of the periodical in 1997 demonstrates comparative education studies reported in this forum have developed from oring definitions of the field and passing on information towards focusing cademic and professional development.