Chinese contemporary archival studies have made a great progress in talent training and discipline development. However,it still faces three crises：the crisis in the source of students,the crisis in the research methodology,and the crisis in the research products. In order to promote the development of Chinese contemporary archival studies,trans-disciplinary research and teaching needs to be enhanced, and the research methodology system needs to be developed. Meanwhile,the academic community of Chinese archival studies also needs to take on more social responsibilities and to study more humanistic research topics. Hence Chinese contemporary archival education and research would have more social influences,and archival studies would gain more social identification.