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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781818603321

Autore

Tuan Yi-fu <1930-2022.>

Titolo

Coming home to China [[electronic resource] /] / Yi-Fu Tuan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8166-5431-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

951.06092

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Soggetti

Geographers - United States

China Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.