Abstract
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art is a top-ranked professional academic periodical with key influence in China. Since its launch in 1980, it has been targeted at taking foreign literary theory and research as reference to Chinese literary theory. In the past three decades, it aims at connecting with international academic research, from introducing classical works in the column of Translation of Foreign Literary Theory ("FLT") to publishing domestic research papers in the column of Studies of FLT, and in recent years the journal has also published original papers written in English by scholars at home and abroad. Based on a survey of the contents of FLT in the past thirty years, this paper claims that it provides a constructive theoretical guidance for contemporary Chinese literary theory. On the one hand, a large number of papers on foreign literary theories and classical studies spread across China and helps to promote the acceptance of foreign literary theories. The latest foreign theories and the new concepts introduced in the journal often excite academic debates and further reflections in the research. On the other hand, the research published in the journal has also demonstrated the positive role which Chinese domestic scholars have played in the digestion and absorption FLT. The thirty years of the journal publication corresponds with the period of China's reform, and the journal has been a benchmark for researches on Chinese literary theory, established the connection with international research on literary studies, and promoted the domestic research on Chinese literary theory.
First Page
71
Last Page
80
Recommended Citation
Tao, Guoshan. 2014. "Three Decades' Research on Foreign Literary Theory in Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (1): pp.71-80. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss1/19
