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The Shanghai Literary Review @shanghailit

Founded in Shanghai in 2016, we are a transpacific platform for artists & writers featuring creative work from and about Asia ✨

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The Shanghai Literary Review@shanghailit
29 Aug 2025
We've been left holding the bag (1000s of dollars) after @DukeKunshan backed out of their confirmed printing commitment. We’re now raising funds to cover the printer's current costs and to reprint an updated version of Issue 9 without further delay. shanghailiterary.com/issue9-…
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The clock is still running. Day 14 since @DukeKunshan / @DukeU broke its written promise. 🔗duke-delay.shanghailiterary.… But silence won’t rewrite the facts. There’s only one next step that matters: paying the printer. Everything else is delay. We’re not backing down.
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❌️ How many days has it been since @DukeKunshan / @DukeU walked back its promise? 13.
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❌️ How many @DukeKunshan / @DukeU PhDs does it take to remain silent while a small literary journal is left uncompensated for its labor? 11.
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Accountability matters. Stand with us. Speak out. duke-delay.shanghailiterary.… #Accountability #academia #publishing #TSLR
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Juli Min@JuliMinNYC
19 Aug 2025
Really heartbroken to see my beloved TSLR going through this difficult time. Hoping for resolution soon. If you'd like to support the magazine consider buying a copy of the forthcoming issue or any available back issue. @shanghailit shanghailiterary.substack.co…
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When a university breaks its written commitment, small presses pay the price. @DukeKunshan promised to cover @ShanghaiLitRev’s printing costs, then reneged after production. 👉duke-delay.shanghailiterary.… 👉shanghailiterary.substack.co… @chronicle @timeshighered @AWPwriter @PENamerica
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We partnered with @DukeKunshan Humanities Research Center. For Issue 9, they promised to pay printing costs, but backed out after production began. The printer remains unpaid. We’re holding them accountable. 🔗 duke-delay.shanghailiterary.… #TSLR #DukeDelay #PayThePrinter @DukeU
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“Send me the invoice and I will pay it.” —Dr. Carlos Rojas, Duke Kunshan University We sent the invoice. It remains unpaid. Here’s what happened—and why it matters. 🧵 #TSLR #PublishingEthics #AcademicAccountability
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We contacted the full HRC Advisory Board—including faculty at @DukeU and @FranklinFHI. No response. No intervention. No accountability. When leadership stays silent, institutional harm follows.
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🔗 Read the full post: tinyurl.com/2s362cne How to help: – Tag @DukeU & @DukeKunshan – Raise this in your networks – Demand better from institutions We won't stay silent. #TSLR #AcademicEthics #SupportSmallPresses
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Unfortunately, The Shanghai Literary Review Issue 9 has been delayed after Duke Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center walked back a written commitment to cover printing costs—after printing had already begun. 🧵
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We’ve now formally ended our 5-year partnership with DKU. Institutions should not be allowed to shift the cost of their mismanagement onto small publishers, artists, and third-party laborers.
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This issue deserves to be in the world. And it will be. 📝 Full statement here: shanghailiterary.substack.co… Thank you for standing with us. #Accountability
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Paul Bevan@Sinobevan
26 Jun 2025
Please read my review of Huang Xuelei’s Scents of China. Then read her book. It’s good! @shanghailit shanghailiterary.com/tslr-on…
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In “A Breach Sonnet” and “A Necessary Invention,” @joangv66Joan reimagines myth and memory, desire and rupture, with language that is at once intimate, fragmented, and lyrical. 🔗shanghailiterary.com/tslr-on… #poetrycommunity
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😍Cover Reveal TSLR Issue 9 | Summer 2025 Preorders here: shanghailiterary.com/store/p… Worldwide shipping Image credit: Xiyadie 'Train' 1985-1986. 📷 Xiyadie. Image courtesy of artist and Blindspot Gallery #tslr9 #poetry #literature #art #photography #fiction #nonfiction #criticism
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