Who Am I: An Autobiography Of Emotion, Mind, And Spirit (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

154 Pages·1999·6.06 MB·English

by  Yi-Fu Tuan

Who Am I?
Wisconsin Studies inAutobiography
WilliamL. Andrews
GeneralEditor
Who Alll I?
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF EMOTION, MIND,
AND SPIRIT
Yi-Fu Yuan
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Tuan, Yi- fu, 1930–
Who am I?: an autobiography of emotion, mind,
and spirit / Yi- fu Tuan.
150 pp. cm. — (Wisconsin studies in autobiography)
ISBN o- 299- 1666o- o (cloth: alk. paper)
1. Tuan, Yi- fu, 1930– 2. Geographers Biography.
3. Chinese Americans Biography. I. Title. II. Series.
G69.T84A3 1999
973′.04951′oo92—dc21
[B] 99- 23672
ISBN- 13 978- 0- 299- 16664- 9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Contents
Illustrations VB
I Autobiography: My Angle 3
2 World Stage and Public Events 12
3 Personal: From Parents to Stone 33
4 Intimate: From Justice to Love 62
5 Salvation by Geography 9°
6 A Good Life? 117
Notes 135
Acknowledgments 139
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Illustrations
I. The Tuan family, 1943 20
2. Independence Day, July 4, 1946, Manila 26
3· Medalists of the American Geographical Society,
The Explorers' Club, New York City, 1987 3°
4· Cocktail party at the Chinese Embassy, Panama City, 1959 31
5· My acute sense of self at an early age, 1938 34
6. The earliest picture of me, Tianjin, 193I 39
7· Seeking my mother's affection, ca. 1940 4°
8. Southeastern Arizona, 1954 46
9· Fieldwork in northwestern New Mexico, 1963 51
10. Admiring Laura Komai's quilt 60
II. My mother, my sister, and me, 1946 85
12. Graduation from Oxford, 1951 91
13· An Oxford Eight rowing boat on the Thames, ca. 1949 96
14· Fountains at Tivoli 1°3
15· At Disneyland, 1995 121
16. Joshua H. Sack 127
17· Convocation at the University ofWaterloo, 1985 128
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Who Am I?