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Who am I? : an autobiography of emotion, mind, and spirit /
Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-2022
Who am I? : an autobiography of emotion, mind, and spirit / Yi-fu Tuan - vii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Wisconsin studies in autobiography . - Wisconsin studies in autobiography .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138)
Autobiography: My Angle -- World Stage and Public Events -- Personal: From Parents to Stone -- Intimate: From Justice to Love -- Salvation by Geography -- A Good Life? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment."--Jacket "Yet, Tuan finds his life increasingly marked by detachment and isolation. In Who Am I?, he probes what he sees as his moral failings, his lack of courage - including the courage to be open about his homosexuality - resulting, as he writes, "in a life that is seamed in ambivalence - achingly empty at the core, despairingly alone, yet often content, occasionally even happy," as when he catches glimpses of heaven in his exploration of the beautiful and the good."--Jacket
0299166600 9780299166601
Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-2022
Geographers--Biography
Chinese Americans--Biography
G69.T84 / A3 1999
Who am I? : an autobiography of emotion, mind, and spirit / Yi-fu Tuan - vii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Wisconsin studies in autobiography . - Wisconsin studies in autobiography .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138)
Autobiography: My Angle -- World Stage and Public Events -- Personal: From Parents to Stone -- Intimate: From Justice to Love -- Salvation by Geography -- A Good Life? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment."--Jacket "Yet, Tuan finds his life increasingly marked by detachment and isolation. In Who Am I?, he probes what he sees as his moral failings, his lack of courage - including the courage to be open about his homosexuality - resulting, as he writes, "in a life that is seamed in ambivalence - achingly empty at the core, despairingly alone, yet often content, occasionally even happy," as when he catches glimpses of heaven in his exploration of the beautiful and the good."--Jacket
0299166600 9780299166601
Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-2022
Geographers--Biography
Chinese Americans--Biography
G69.T84 / A3 1999
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