The Shanghai Literary Review

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-donor-d…

The clock is still running. Day 14 since @DukeKunshan / @DukeU broke its written promise. 🔗duke-delay.shanghailiterary.com 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.

Accountability matters. Stand with us. Speak out. duke-delay.shanghailiterary.com #Accountability #academia #publishing #TSLR

❌️ How many @DukeKunshan / @DukeU PhDs does it take to remain silent while a small literary journal is left uncompensated for its labor? 11.

❌️ How many days has it been since @DukeKunshan / @DukeU walked back its promise? 13.

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.com/p/issue-9-upda…

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.com 👉shanghailiterary.substack.com @chronicle @timeshighered @AWPwriter @PENamerica

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.com #TSLR #DukeDelay #PayThePrinter @DukeU

🔗 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

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.

“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

@chrissonghk Thank you so much for your generosity and support, Chris!

This issue deserves to be in the world. And it will be. 📝 Full statement here: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-upda… Thank you for standing with us. #Accountability

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.

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. 🧵

Please read my review of Huang Xuelei’s Scents of China. Then read her book. It’s good! @shanghailit shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-co…

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-online-co… #poetrycommunity