Coming home to China
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Coming home to China
University of Minnesota Press, c2007
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Contents of Works
- 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?
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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