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"Excuse me, as one of the hottest stars in the entertainment industry today, can you please tell each other what happened on the road to fame?" The five top beauties looked at each other, with almost no time to think, and they all blurted out a name. Ji Xiaobai, the young man who had been by their side from the very beginning, was the well-deserved boss. "Without him, we might not know each other at all, nor would we have such outstanding achievements as we do today." "So here we imagine him solemnly saying, thank you!" Under the brightly lit stage, a young figure wearing a peaked cap stood below, with a smile of relief at the corner of his mouth, lowered the cap again, and left silently. "What we have achieved today is also the result of your own efforts." "Actually, the one who should say thank you should be me..."

This book is about the topography of a small northern city. As an attempt to integrate historical anthropology and urban community research, this book draws on the "topography turn" of anthropology's focus on the materiality of the world, and uses the concept of "landscape making" to present the topography of a city through the historical changes of the city's overall space and historical buildings, public spaces and homes, and explores the power, culture and history within it. Based on the historical practice of urban landscape production, different types of spatial domination are summarized: "symbolic domination" in the late empire, "total domination" before reform and opening up, and current "life domination". Finally, China's national transformation in modern times is discussed.

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