THJCS Vol.56 No.2 Special Issue “Poeticality and Literary Transformation: The Contemporaneity of Traditional Literature” has been published

Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies Vol.56 No.2 was published in June 2026 with the following seven articles:

  1. An Analysis of the History of Poetry in Wenxin Diaolong (Chien Liang-ju)
  2. The Concept of the “Ancient” in the Literature of Early Liu-Song Dynasty Imperial Princes: Imitation, Jian’an, and Military Life (Ohira Sachiyo)
  3. The Concept of Xing in Du Fu’s Poetry and Its Implications for the Shift in Tang Poetics (Hsu Ming-chuan)
  4. Emotion, Negation of Emotion, and Reality: On Stephen Soong’s (Song Qi’s) Poetics of Emotion (Kwok Kou Leonard Chan)
  5. Encountering Traces in Zhendan: Daoxuan’s Stupa Narratives in Ji Shenzhou Sanbao Gantong Lu and Their Contemporaneity (Liu Yuan-ju)
  6. Literati on Stage, Actors in Office: “Mobile” Theatre Troupes and Social Imaginaries in Mid-Qing Novels (Yang Chung-wei)
  7. Xiaopinwen as a Product of the Republican Era: Institutions, Genres, and Paradigms (Liu Cheng-chung)

For further information, please visit the journal’s database: https://thjcs.site.nthu.edu.tw/p/412-1452-22792.php?Lang=en