《The Landscape of Words》简介：

This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China–moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts produced continuously for over two thousand years and constitue an important form of public art. Focusing on the period prior to the eighth century C.E., Harrist demonstrates that the significance of the inscriptions depends on the interaction of words with topography, so that the medium of the written work has transformed geological formations into landscapes of ideological and religious significance.

《The Landscape of Words》摘录：

[L]andscape is not a natural phenomenon but a product of human nature, generated through what Simon Schama has called "our shaping perception" of the raw material of nature? The most important thing to remember about any Roman inscription is that it is inscribed on something. (Lawrence Keppie)

《The Landscape of Words》目录：

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
Introduction: Writing on the Bones of the Earth
Chapter One. Public Works and Public Writing at the Stone Gate
Chapter Two. Roaming with Immortals on Cloud Peak Mountain
Chapter Three. The Virtual Stele on Mount Tie and the Merits of Scale
Chapter Four. Imperial Writing and the Ascent of Mount Tai
Chapter Five. Postscript
Chinese Texts
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index
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