The September issue of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly–Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between–has been released!

2026-09-30

The September issue of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly--Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between--has been released.

Editorial Note
Chung-jen Chen

■ Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between
Guest Editors: Hui-chuan Wang and Sophia Yashih Liu

Introduction
Hui-chuan Wang and Sophia Yashih Liu

Between City and Suburb: Vernacular Expressions in Temple Divination Lots of Zhuzhan and Their Social Linkages
Hsiao-Chi Chen

Film as a Mobile Map: The Construction of Taipei’s Urban Space in Arvin Chen’s Films
Ting-Ying Lin

Chen Shunchen and His Novels in the Urban Space of Kobe: A Study of Karekusa no Ne, Sanshoku no Ie, and Mada Owaranai
Toshiaki Sasanuma

The Psychology of Peril: Narratives of Amorous Encounters with Strangers in the Lodging Spaces of the Yijian zhi
Na Yen

The Landscape and Realization of the Witch: A Geographical Inquiry into the Malleus Maleficarum
Shuo Lee

Imagining the Ideal City in the Renaissance: A Study Based on Alberti’s De Re Aedificatoria
Min-Chi Chang

The Sacred Locus: Space, Place, and the Viewer’s Reading in Fra Angelico’s Annunciation for the Armadio degli Argenti
Shin-En Su

■ Chung Wai Book Review

The Sociology of Literature beyond Literary Purism: The Interplay of Texts, Fields, and Transnational Circulation
Huei-yu Huang