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Who Am I? Wisconsin Studies inAutobiography WilliamL. Andrews GeneralEditor Who Alll I? AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EMOTION, MIND, AND SPIRIT Yi-Fu Yuan The University ofWisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711- 2059 www .wisc .edu / w isconsinpress / 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 1999 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 3 5 4 2 Printed in the United States of America 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 v 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 Vll Who Am I?

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