02658nam 2200577Ia 450 991080765860332120200520144314.00-8166-5431-X(CKB)1000000000484865(EBL)334226(OCoLC)437202853(SSID)ssj0000125374(PQKBManifestationID)11141016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125374(PQKBWorkID)10026672(PQKB)10202532(MiAaPQ)EBC334226(OCoLC)567946911(MdBmJHUP)muse38987(Au-PeEL)EBL334226(CaPaEBR)ebr10215808(CaONFJC)MIL525585(EXLCZ)99100000000048486520060824d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComing home to China /Yi-Fu Tuan1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (192 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4992-8 0-8166-4991-X 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.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.GeographersUnited StatesBiographyChinaDescription and travelGeographers951.06092BTuan Yi-fu1930-269770MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807658603321Coming home to China4196859UNINA