Full Journal Title: Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (TSLA)
Frequency: Bimonthly
Organization: China Association for Theory of Literature and Art
East China Normal University
ISSN: 0257-0254 // CN31-1152/I
Launched in June, 1980, TSLA is the journal of the state-certified first-tier China Literary Theory Association (founded in May, 1979), one of the earliest and most prominent national academic associations of the post-reform and open-up era. It is China’s first and the leading journal of studies of literary and art theory. Rooted in China’s fundamental realities and endowed with a global reach, it has contributed enormously to Chinese scholarship.
Current Issue: Volume 45, Number 4 (2025)
Issue in Focus: Classical Fiction Studies
Issue in Focus: Theatre Theory Studies
The Conceptual Connotations and Evolutionary Trajectories of Theatricality
Chengzhou He and Lingbo Fu
Neo-avant-garde and the Critique of Late Capitalism: On the Political Dimension of Intermediality
Chang Chen
Mutual Exchange of Literary Theories
Bombing Inequality: Graffiti Writing and Spatial Justice
Andrea L. Baldini
Representation and Non-Representation: Exploring Approaches to Western Landscape Criticism
Muren Zhang
Moral Defects and Aesthetic Values: The Immoralism in Western Art Ethics and Its Interpretation
Keke Yang
Studies of China's Independent Knowledge System of Literary Theory: Topics in Lu Xun Studies
Misreading in Lu Xun's Critique of Confucianism: The Intersecting Spiritual Logic of Two Traditions
Shaochong Yuan
Theoretical Studies of Ancient Literature
Reinterpreting the “Preface to Selections of Refined Literature” through “Close– Distant Reading”
Bowei Zhang
From “Folk Classic” to “Scholar-Official Classic”: Thousand-Year Reception and Canonization of Liu Yong's CiPoetry
Mingsheng Cao and Xianyi Sha
