Shun, 99, 169–170, 173, 210

Sichuan, 21, 25, 45, 58, 74–75, 77–78, 88, 121, 184, 187, 258–261, 264, 267–268, 272, 276–277, 291, 293

modern Sichuan, 279

Sichuan landmarks, 76

southwestern Sichuan, 296

Sikong Shu, 203

Sikong Tu

“Record of the ‘Map of Chinese and Foreign Lands’”, 50

Sima Qian, 36, 192

“Biographies of Southwestern Barbarians”, 101–102

Records of the Grand Historian, 35, 61, 126

simultaneity, 262, 276

Six Dynasties, 38, 46, 106, 140, 144, 239, 315

Smith, Richard, 48, 51, 64, 66–67

Song Dynasty, 51, 56, 108, 121, 187, 223, 225, 245

Southern Department, 92–93

southwestern China, 296

space

ideas about space, 59

imaginary, 11, 32–33, 296, 314, 317–318

imperial space, 3, 88, 92, 98, 100–101, 103, 116, 120, 259, 299, 314

and place, 11–14, 25, 27–28, 86, 97, 101, 103, 107–108, 111, 116, 148, 158–159, 184, 189, 197, 217, 232, 243, 258–259, 282, 311

social space, 11

textual space, 25, 144, 166, 255–257, 276, 288, 299

spatial-geographical techniques, 259

spiritual, 22, 34, 105, 116, 131, 134–136, 141–144, 166–167, 169, 171–172, 174–176, 178–179, 185, 227, 244

Spring, Madeline K., 235, 248

stele, 4, 47, 64, 66, 68, 186, 194, 196, 225, 234

“Stele of the Pacification of Huaixi”, 41

“Stele Inscription for the Altar of the Transcendent Lady Wei of the Jin Dynasty, the Lady of the Southern Marchmount, Primal Worthy of the Purple Void, Concurrently Supreme True Mistress of Destiny”, 135, 144

Stevens, Wallace, 116, 127

stodgy scholars (suru), 90–91

suicide, 158, 210

Sun Cong, 241–242

supernatural, 81, 87, 91, 113, 142, 231, 273, 301

Tackett, Nicolas, 62, 198–199, 248

Tally, Robert T., 28, 317, 319

temple, 51, 53, 69, 98, 102–103, 110, 117, 142, 158–159, 169–172, 175–176, 221, 247, 266, 268–269, 272–273, 293–294, 296, 301

Tian, Xiaofei, 9, 62

Tiantai Mountain, 111

Tongcheng School, 308, 319

Tongzhou, 25–26, 174, 177, 258, 277–283, 285, 287–294, 296, 299

traveler, 37, 75, 77, 105, 117, 132, 160, 210–211, 232, 240, 252, 261, 264, 290, 296, 301, 303, 313

“Treatise on Geography”, 35, 42