Thank for the Excerpts The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spencer.
"by expanding the number of locations and the corresponding number of images that can be stored in them that we increase and strengthen our memory. Therefore the Chinese should struggle w/ the difficult task of creating fictive places, or mixing the fictive with the real, fixing them permanently in their minds by constant practice and review so that at last the fictive spaces become “as if real, and can never be erased.”
I was confused about memory palace… Now I will begin to create a room, a house, a world … all fictive not real…
Just read the four of them now. Great work.
Link isn’t working for me, I know this is an old post, but does anybody have the old excerpts? 
Sorry about that. The top post was missing due to a bug, but I’ve just fixed it now.