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Coming home to China /
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 ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.