Tiankyo is the capital of the five islands that make up the Skylands. Long a colonial capital, its power has since shrunk after the dissolution of the duarchy and creation of a federated state. History This timeline covers the events chronicled in the epistolary story “The Sky and Everything Under” in In the Watchful City….

Journals written in response to media assigned for the class CHIN 562 Post-Mao Urban Culture & Arts, including journal response to Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, precipitating concepts that appear in In the Watchful City.