Coming home to China / Yi-Fu Tuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographers--United States--Biography.

Geographers.

China--Description and travel.

China.

Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930---Travel--China.

Tuan, Yi-fu.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. In this enchanting volume, Tuans childhood memories and musings on the places he encountered during his homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging principles of human geography and the changing Chinese landscape.

Contents:

The long flight

Beijing: first impressions

A walk in the neighborhood and a gustatory shock

The summer palace

A speech to architects: a tour de force?

A busy day with a satisfactory ending

Another hotel and a campus tour

Showing off in Chinese and English

My student guides

Lecture and tours in Beijing

Goodbye Beijing, hello Chongqing

Touring "authentic" Chongqing

Revisiting my childhood: Nankai Middle School

First day on the Yangtze River

Second day on the Yangtze River

Stopover in Yichang

Shanghai: old memories and new experiences

Last day: food poisoning and conversation

To the airport and home

Reflections.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-5431-X

OCLC:

437202853