Coming home to China
著者
書誌事項
Coming home to China
University of Minnesota Press, c2007
- : hbk
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全3件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
HTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006028172.html Information=Table of contents only
HTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006028172-d.html Information=Publisher description
収録内容
- The long flight
- Beijing: first impressions
- A walk in the neighborhood and a gustatory shock
- Summer palace
- A speech to architects: a tour de force?
- First lecture: topophilia and topophobia
- A busy day with a satisfactory ending
- Another hotel and a campus tour
- Showing off in Chinese and English
- Second lecture: humanistic geography
- My student guides
- Lecture and tours in Beijing
- Third lecture: a question in human geography
- 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 Yi Chang
- Shanghai: old memories and new experiences
- Last day: food poisoning and conversation
- To the airport and home?
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the summer of 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an international architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. He traveled from Beijing to Shanghai, addressing college audiences, floating down the Yangtze River on a riverboat, and visiting his former home in Chongqing.
In this enchanting volume, Tuan's childhood memories and musings on the places encountered during this homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging overarching principles of human geography as well as the changing Chinese landscape. Throughout, Tuan's interactions with his hosts, with his colleague's children, and even with a garrulous tour guide, offer insights into one who has spent his life studying place, culture, and self.
At the beginning of his trip, Tuan wondered if he would be a stranger among people who looked like him. By its end, he reevaluates his own self-definition as a hyphenated American and sheds new light on human identity's complex roots in history, geography, and language.
Yi-Fu Tuan is author of Cosmos and Hearth, Dear Colleague, and Space and Place, all from Minnesota. He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998.
「Nielsen BookData」 より
