With the unprecedented prosperity of travel-note creation, comprehensive theoretical discussion of travel notes emerged for the first time in the history of Chinese literature in the late Ming Dynasty, which was mainly about the relationship between literati and landscapes, reasons for diversified styles, the mentality of creation and methods of creation, involving all stages of travel notes from scratch to completion. Besides creating travel notes, literati in the Late Ming Dynasty had a significant contribution in the study of travel noes, taking travel literature from mere creation to the level of theoretical research, which is of great significance in the history of travel writing.

Hu Haiqin. Research on Theories of Travel Writing in the Late Ming Dynasty. Frontiers in Art Research (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 5: 15-24. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2021.030505.

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