The Apparent Screwing of The Shanghai Literary Review by Duke Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center

Posted: September 6th, 2025 | No Comments »

As a past contributor to The Shanghai Literary Review it’s very annoying to read of the problems they are having with their institutional partners Duke Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center (HRC)…. Read the details here and let’s hope Duke Kunshan sort this out….

(as of publication – September 1 – this matter has not been resolved leaving the people who give up their time to run TSLR considerably out of pocket and the future of the journal in some doubt – a shabby effort by Duke Kunshan all round).

As of last weekend TSLR confirmed that Duke Kunshan had still not responded to any correspondence on why they had failed to pay the promised monies. TSLR said: ‘Failing DKU coming to their senses, it appears that we’ll have to pay for the material that has been printed already (but cannot be used) as well as a reprint of the entire issue (thousands of dollars in total).’

You can help TSLR by donating a small amount to help them stay afloat here…

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