13. Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, 6.

14. Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction, 10.

15. For a useful study of this topic with a synthesis of existent scholarship, see Paula Varsano, “Do You See What I See?: Visuality and the Formation of the Chinese Landscape,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, vol. 35, 2013: 31–57.

16. “Site.” Def.1 and 2a. http://www2​.​merriam-​webster.​com.​ 2003. Last accessed on May 14, 2017.

17. Brosseau, “Geography’s Literature,” Progress in Human Geography, 18.3 (1994), 334.

18. Ibid., 347.

19. Some of the articles and books addressing this point include: Douglas C.D. Pocock, ed., Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography): Essays on the Experience of Place (London: Croom Helm, 1981); Brosseau, “Geography’s Literature”; Joanne P. Sharp, “Towards a Critical Analysis of Fictive Geographies,” Area vol. 32, issue 3 (September 2000), 327–34, and others.

20. Bunkse, Geography and the Art of Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

21. For a review of some early scholarship along this line, see Fabio Lando, “Fact and Fiction: Geography and Literature: A Bibliographic Survey,” GeoJournal vol. 38, no. 1 (January 1996), 3–18. For recent examples, one can name Robert Tally Jr.’s exploration of the idea of a “literary cartography” in his book Melville, Mapping, and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (London: Continuum, 2009).

22. See Hones, Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 7–8.

23. Liang, “Zhongguo dili dashi lun,” Yinbingshi wenji 飲冰室文集 (Shanghai: Guangzhi shuju, 1902), vol.14, 19–38.

24. In his article “Main Fields in the Research of Literary Geography,” Zou Jianjun lists the following aspects that he believes future studies of literary geography should cover: 1) The influence that writers have received from natural environments; 2) The construction of a geographic space in literary works; 3) The depiction of landscape in literature and its meaning; 4) The emergence of literary schools and their relationship with natural environments; 5) The relationship between literary developments and the change of geographic environment; 6) The influence of geographic discovery on literary texts; 7) Human observation of the cosmic space and its impact on the mindset of literary writers; 8) Differences in