Synopses & Reviews
Review
“In this brief and unsparing autobiography, one of the greatest living geographers turns his versatile intelligence away from studying the landscape of the earth to studying the landscape of self.”—Scott Russell Sanders, Hungry Mind Review
Review
“An honest and highly personal, if unfashionable, perspective on sexuality, race, and identity. . . . It is undoubtedly worth reading, both for the inherently interesting tale it relates and for Tuan’s willingness to risk self-exposure.”—Benjamin Forest, Cultural Geographies
Review
“[Tuan] unfolds his life, friendships, environment, and emotions in a unique manner that not only makes reading this book quite interesting but also encourages readers to look at human life and society from a different perspective.”—Suping Lu, Multicultural Review
Review
“In this brief and unsparing autobiography, one of the greatest living geographers turns his versatile intelligence away from studying the landscape of the earth to studying the landscape of self.”—Scott Russell Sanders, Hungry Mind Review“An honest and highly personal, if unfashionable, perspective on sexuality, race, and identity. . . . It is undoubtedly worth reading, both for the inherently interesting tale it relates and for Tuan’s willingness to risk self-exposure.”—Benjamin Forest, Cultural Geographies “[Tuan] unfolds his life, friendships, environment, and emotions in a unique manner that not only makes reading this book quite interesting but also encourages readers to look at human life and society from a different perspective.”—Suping Lu, Multicultural Review
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
1 Autobiography: My Angle
2 World Stage and Public Events
3 Personal: From Parents to Stone
4 Intimate: From Justice to Love
5 Salvation by Geography
6 A Good Life?
Notes
Acknowledgments