Two papers from the 3rd TACMRS conference entitled “Loci of Light and Darkness” and three papers from the 4th TACMRS conference entitled “Barbarians” were published in December 2011 in a special issue of Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (THCI, ISSN: 2077-1282) 5.1, of which Guest Editor was Prof. Denise Ming-yueh Wang, National Chung Cheng University, on behalf of TACMRS.