Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars' insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century.

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Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of many books, including For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014), Spatiality (2013), and Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System (2013). His edited collections include Spatial Literary Studies (2021), Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017), The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said (2015), Literary Cartographies (2014), and Geocritical Explorations (2011). The translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (2011), Tally is also the general editor of Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, a Palgrave Macmillan book series.

Ying Fang is Professor of Comparative Literature and World Literature at Zhejiang Gongshang University, Zhejiang, China. She is the author of Spatial Narrative in Fiction (2017) and more than 30 articles, and the translator of Spatiality by Robert T. Tally Jr. (2021). She is currently chairing a project sponsored by China's National Social Science Fund, "A Study on Spatial Literary Criticism," and working on a book and several articles in the areas of Literary Cartography, Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Criticism. She is also a poet, who has published a collection (co-authored with her husband) Walking and Singing (2019), and many poems online.

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Series Editor's Preface.- Introduction Ying Fang and Robert T. Tally Jr..- Part I. Spatial Theory and Technology .- 1. An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization Jia Yan.- 2. Space and Mobility in American Literature Ying Liu 3. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform Yongming Xu.- 4. Space: A Key Word in the Study of Art History Juan Mao 5. The Essence of Literary Maps: A Study Fangyun Guo.- 6. Spatial Narrative in Fiction Ying Fang.- Part II. Studies in Literary Geography.- 7. The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography Xinlin Mei.- 8. Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties Yonghai Ge.- 9. Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty Jigang Huang.- 10. Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature Debao Pan.- 11. Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese Novels Lanxiang Ji.- Part III. Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis (or Geocriticism).- 12. Doubling Islands: Heterotopia and Literary Cartography in The Embarrassment of Riches Iping Liang.- 13. Sinclair Lewis's Portfolio of Literary Maps: Zenith and the Production of Space in American Cities Hairong Zhang.- 14. Pretext, Embedded-text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather's One of Ours Hongfei Yan.- 15. Embedded Geographies: Physical Geography in Eastern Jin Guo Pu's "River Fu" Sophia Kidd.- 16. The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Ying Tian.- 17. Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space Jie Hou.