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Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
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Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit Hardcover - 1999

by Yi-Fu Tuan

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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. This unusually introspective autobiography mixes Yi-Fu Tuan's reflections on a life filled with recognition, accolades, and even affection -- all signs of success -- with a deep sense of personal failure.

The son of a prominent Chinese diplomat, Tuan moved from a cosmopolitan childhood to a relatively quiet life as an academic in the United States, where his books on topics as diverse as the cultural role of pets and the moral implications of urban design have met with international scholarly and public acclaim. 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.

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  • Title Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
  • Author Yi-Fu Tuan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 177
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1999
  • ISBN 9780299166601 / 0299166600
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.28 x 0.66 in (23.80 x 15.95 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Chinese Americans, Tuan, Yi-fu
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99023672
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Library Journal, 09/01/1999, Page 206

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