City Novel

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.