Coming home to China / / Yi-Fu Tuan
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| Autore: |
Tuan Yi-fu <1930->
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| Titolo: |
Coming home to China / / Yi-Fu Tuan
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 951.06092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Geographers - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Description and travel |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Coming home to China |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5431-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807658603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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