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 3 (2025)
Issue in Focus: Comparative Literary Criticism
Issue in Focus: Posthumanism and the Aesthetics of Technology
Issue in Focus: Romantic Studies
Mutual Learning betwen Literary Theories
From the Harmonious Person to Aesthetic Utopia: A Study of Educational Ideas of Goethe, Schiller and Humboldt from the Perspective of Modernity
Mingqiang Yang and Yingfu Lu
Theoretical Studies of Ancient Literature
The Creative Practice of Gu Kuang's Retrospective Poetics and Its Significance in Literary History
Xuechun Sui
