Write a novel about the city. "Present the city in terms of human experience," "describe a city in terms of
[the] characters’ observation and movement—a city of the eye and the foot, so to
speak. ... give people’s perception of a city, of its culture
and traditions, in a word, of its ethos” (Hanan Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 36).
One summer in Guilin will do.
