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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-2022
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Tuan, Yi-fu, > 1930-2022. > China > Travel.
Geographers > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Geographers
Travel
China > Description and travel.
Chine > Descriptions et voyages.
China
United States
Computer network resources.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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