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Professor Li Yongdong's monograph "Literary Imagination and the Concept of the Nation-State in the City of the Republic of China" takes the literary imagination of the city in the Republic of China as the research object and explores the intrinsic relationship between the urban imagination and the concept of the nation-state. The main cities involved in the Republic of China are Nanjing, Chongqing, Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, etc. With a novel perspective and unique viewpoint, it expands the direction of urban imagination research. By grasping the identity of the city and the identity of the writer, we examine the literary imagination of the capitals (Beijing, Nanjing, Chongqing) and concession cities (Tianjin, Shanghai) of the Republic of China, and elucidate the mutual construction relationship between urban imagination and the concept of nation-state. It enriches the theory of urban imagination and nation-state, and uses the research method of urban inter-viewing to draw novel conclusions in the study of urban imagination such as Chongqing and Tianjin.