Introduction: Ideal land, landscape of our dreams / Lee Soo-mi -- Catalogue. Pristine and peaceful land ; Epitome of the ideal land : Eight views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers ; Confucian sage's nine-bend stream : Mount Wuyi ; Symbolic landscape of peace and prosperity ; Nature as a spiritual sanctuary ; Blissful Utopia ; Another ideal land -- Articles. Ideal lands as portrayed in landscape paintings of East Asia / Han Jung-Hee ; Ideal lands as portrayed in classical literature / Ahn Dae Hoe ; East Asian painting and the Eight views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers / Park Hae Hoon.