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 6 (2025)
Issue in Focus: Cultural Studies
Issue in Focus: Digital Media Studies
Embodiment, Brain, and Intuition: On Hubert Dreyfus and the Cognitive Generation of AI Films
Wencan Xianyu
Human Intelligence or Artificial Intelligence? A Few Questions about Literary Narratives in the AI Age
Ying Zhang and Xiangyu Wu
Issue in Focus: Studies of Chinese Art History
Evolving Symbols: A Study of the Triple Implications of the Weiqi Iconography in the Song Dynasty
Peichong Xi
“Jinshi Flavor”: The Historical Evolution and Cultural Construction of an Aesthetic Concept
Yilin Wang
Mutual Exchange of Literary Theories
A Common Measure: The Legitimacy of Applying the “Paradigm” Research Framework to Literary Theory
Sanda Li
Studies of China's Independent Knowledge System of Literary Theory
The Sinicization of “Contradiction and Overdetermination”: A Study Centered on the 1964 Translation
Yichen Wang
Theoretical Studies of Ancient Literature
The Origin of the Stylistic Form and Knowledge System of Han—Dynasty Fengshi on Disasters and Anomalies
Runzhong Zhang
Innovation within Tradition: Competitive Strategies of Late Ming Taige (Court) Literature and Their Significance
Xiaolu Xiaolu and Huan Zhang
