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 46, Number 2 (2026)
Issue in Focus: Studies of Song Literature
Writing Worthies: The Naming and Generic Formation of “Records of Shrine Halls” in the Song Dynasty
Hongxiang Zhao
The Nature Aesthetics of “Changeable States” and Its Poetic Practice among the Song-dynasty Poets
Xiaoyi Wang
Modern and Contemporary Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
A Field of Cultural Practice Shaped by the Interaction of Multiple Forces: A Study of Guangzhou Music Teahouses in the Early Reform and Opening-up Period
Dongfeng Tao and Yunxia Fan
Beyond Transitional Justice: Han Kang's Literature and the Politics of Mourning
Weixuan Xi and Sijin He
Mutual Exchange of Literary Theories
Visual Media, Digital Art, and the Development of Contemporary Aesthetics: An Interview with Professor Dominic McIver Lopes
Caishu Zhou and Dominic Mclver Lopes
“Transnational Literature” and “Transgression” in Literature
Shihua Chen and Buwen Wei
Rethinking The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Rebellious Body without Organs and the Fissures of the Italian Nation-State
Diego Gullotta and Lili Lin
Studies of China's Independent Knowledge System of Literary Theory
Cultural Memory and the Formation of the “Chinese Paradigm” of Contemporary Literary Hermeneutics
Pengfei Gu
Theoretical Studies of Ancient Literary Theory and Literature
Spirit-Forging Society: Reviving Poetic Voice to “the Great Hero Spirit” and “Iron-Blood Ethos”
Shijin Luo
“The Crown of Writings”: The Establishment of Liu Yin's Literary Status and His Ideological Origins
Tianxiao Ren
Rethinking “Projection Theory”: Wang Fuzhi's and Gernot Böhme's Theories of “Scene” and “Thing”
Xiaoping Li
