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 44, Number 5 (2024)
From Experience to Theory: Cultural Studies and Its Challenges Within the Chinese Context
Duan Jifang
Transborderality, Transmediality, Transdisciplinarity — An Interview with John Pier: Retrospectives and Prospects for Western Narratology
John Pier and Cao Danhong
The Tripartite Structure of Narrative Communication from the Perspective of “Pre-story Discourse”
Qian Han and Wang Jin
The “Referential Game” in Literary Texts
Huang Jiaguang and Ma Dakang
Virtual Reality vs. Real World: On Materiality and the Difference of Environmental Perception
Wang Qian
On Digital Literature
Ma Shuangzi
The Political Function of the Lyrical: Reevaluating Domestication and Foreignization Through the Untranslatable
Xia Kaiwei and He Ning
Stylistic Expansion and Self-Consciousness: A Conceptual History of the Late Ming Sketches
Tang Zhibo
Li Kaixian's Views on Qu History and Lyrics and Their Significance in the History of Qu Studies
Li Yihui
