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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.

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Current Issue: Volume 43, Number 6 (2024)

Ancient Literary Theory and Theoretical Studies of Ancient Literature

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On the Genre of Shushi
Oinghua Wang Wang Oinghua, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University. Wang's research focuses on ancient Chinese novels, fiction studies, classical narrative genres and narratology.

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An Examination of Liu Shipei's Writing Model and Theory of Parallel Prose
Mingqiang Zhang Zhang Mingqiang, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Guizhou Normal University. His research interests include the literature during the Ming and Qing dynasties and the theory on parallel prose.

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On the Wholeness, Thematic Origins and Retro Value of Chen Zi'ang's “Emotional Impressions”
Xiaohua Zhao Zhao Xiaohua, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the School of International Chinese Studies, East China Normal University. Her research interests include the literature from the Han to the Tang dynasties.

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Tales, Allusions and Poetry: From a Line on Unorthodox Allusion in Yuan Haowen's Thirty Poems on Poetry
Ning Luo Luo Ning, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Humanities, Southwest Jiaotong University. His research interests include the literature from the Han to the Song dynasties.

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The “De-homogenizing” Writing of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in Classical Chinese Fictions during the Qing Dynasty
Jiaojing Zhang Zhang Jiaojing, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the Culture and Education Center of Beijing Jiaotong University. Her research interest includes ancient Chinese fiction.

Issue in Focus: Modern and Contemporary Literary Theory and Cultural Studies

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The First Cry of Call to Arms and Related Topics: From Nostalgia to Diary of a Madman
Chen Li Li Chen, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Chongqing University. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Guo Chunlin, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Chongqing University. His research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, and Lu Xun studies. and Chunlin Guo

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From “Rewriting Lu Xun” to “Patricide”: Historical Investigation into and Reflection on Chinese American Scholars' Criticisms of Lu Xun
Shi Li Li Shi, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Institute of Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Shenzhen University. His research interests include overseas Chinese studies, critical theory and cultural studies.

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Chinese Neo-sensationalists' Reception and Transformation of Junichiro Tanizaki's Literary Works: A History of Reading Centering on Liu Naou's Diary
Shimeng Gao Gao Shimeng, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at School of Chinese Language and literature, Beijing Normal University. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature and literary thought.

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The Introduction of “Inspiration” from Transliteration to Translation in Chinese Context
Yunxia Huang Huang Yunxia, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Literature, Journalism and Communication, South-Central Minzu University. Her research interests include contemporary Chinese literature and culture. He Changsheng, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Literature, Journalism and Communication, South-Central Minzu University. His research interest include basic literary theory and modern Chinese literary theory. and Changsheng He

Issue in Focus: Phenomenological Literary Criticism

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A Study of the Development of Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Perspective Drawing
Xiaodong Zhang Zhang Xiaodong, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts Management at Shandong University of Arts. His areas of academic specialty include aesthetics of art and phenomenological aesthetics.

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From Philosophization of Literature to Literalization of Philosophy: Revisiting Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Thought on the Affinity between Literature and Philosophy
Xinxin Cui Cui Xinxin, Ph.D., is a lecturer of the School of Literature, Capital Normal University, with research focus on the phenomenological aesthetics.

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From Imitating Reality to Producing Reality: Heidegger's Phenomenology of Art and Modern Art
Siyu Dai Dai Siyu, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the School of Art, Southeast University. Dai's research focuses on the history of modern Western art and art theory.

Issue in Focus: Studies of Art History

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Conceptual Transmutation and Landscape Perspective: A New Interpretation of “Scattered Perspective” in Comparative Visions of the East and the West
Sen Li Li Sen, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Arts, Zhejiang Shuren University. His research interests include art theory, transmedia narrative, and iconography.

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The Veneration of Wang Xizhi and the Formation of Confucian Calligraphic Orthodoxy
Xingcheng Zhang Zhang Xingcheng, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Southwest University. His research interests include classical Chinese philosophy and literary theory.

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The Sacred Land in the Mountains: The Spatial Narrative of “Pavilion” in Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting
Tianle Wang Wang Tianle, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Art, Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests include ancient Chinese art history and art theory.

Issue in Focus: Studies on Aesthetics and Ethics

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The Construction of the Possibility of “Moral Beauty” in Analytic Aesthetics
Zhen Li Li Zhen, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Philosophy at Fudan University, with research interests in analytic aesthetics. Shen Yubing, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Philosophy at Fudan University, with interests in contemporary Western aesthetics, contemporary art history, and art criticism. and Yubing Shen

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Vitalistic Aesthetics: From Deleuze to Rancière
Haiting Zheng Zheng Haiting, Ph. D, is an associate research fellow in the Institute of Literature, Fujian Academy of Social Sciences. Her area of academic specialty is contemporary Western literary theory.

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From Ethical Subject to Self of Eros: The Aesthetics of Existence from Foucault to Agamben
Renjie Ye Ye Renjie, Ph. D., is a lecturer in Department of Philosophy in School of Public Administration, Nanjing Normal University, whose present research interests are Continental Philosophy, History of Western Political Thought and Contemporary Literary Theory.

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Dignitas and Venustas in Ancient Rome: The Ciceronian Aesthetic Ideals
Xinyao Xiao Xiao Xinyao, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Chongqing University. Her academic interest includes ancient Roman literature and literature of the European Renaissance.

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Immanuel Kant's Investigation into the Beautiful and the Sublime and Its Theoretical Provisions
Puman Li Li Puman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Philosophy, Heidelberg University. His research interests include German aesthetics and ethics.

Special Issue on “The Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress”

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On Adhering to the Right Path and Fostering Innovation in the Study of Marxist Literary Theory
Daren Lai Lai Daren, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Jiangxi Normal University, His research interests include literary theory and literary criticism.

Special Issue on “The Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the 21th CPC National Congress”

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The Chinese Adaptation and Contextualization of the Marxist Concept of the “New Literary and Art Characters”
Shuihe Ji Ji Shuihe is a Professor at the School of Literature and Journalism, Xiangtan University, primarily engaged in the study of Marxist literary theory and comparative literature.

Special Issue on “The Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the 22th CPC National Congress”

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Xi Jinping's Discussion on Literary and Art Innovation
Yanqiu Zhao Zhao Yanqiu, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Hunan Normal University. His research interests include literary theory and comparative literature. Fan Xiang is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Hunan Normal University. His research interests include literary theory and western literary theory. and Xiang Fan