Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania).

This book explores a new and innovative topic—the relationship between geographical advancements in the Mid-Tang period (790s to 820s) and spatial imaginaries in contemporaneous literature. Historically and politically, the Mid-Tang period is generally considered to be a period of imperial reconstruction following the chaos of the An Lushan Rebellion (755–763), a rebellion that had a profo...