TITLE:
A Groundbreaking Chinese Voice: Introducing Literary Cartography1 by Guo Fangyun
AUTHORS:
Li Liu
KEYWORDS:
Literary Cartography, Guo Fangyun, Cartographic Mechanism, Cognitive Strategies, Chinese Literary Geography
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.13 No.11,
November
26,
2025
ABSTRACT: In his work Literary Cartography, Professor Guo Fangyun, a prominent Chinese scholar, develops a pioneering academic framework for Literary Cartography. Through a historical examination of the traditional intersection between literature and maps, he clarifies the distinct disciplinary features of literary cartography and addresses its theoretical foundations from the perspectives of philosophical origins, ontology, and methodology. Guo’s theory expands Western spatial criticism within the postmodern context and offers fresh insights into Chinese literary studies, particularly in the field of Chinese Literary Geography. The cartographic mechanisms and cognitive strategies proposed in Literary Cartography uncover the hidden spatial structures within literary texts, emphasizing their spatial dimensions and providing a novel critical approach to literary analysis. Overall, Literary Cartography presents significant potential for future research.