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Beijing: First Impressions

Coming Home to China, 2007, p.5

2007 the Regents of the University of Minnesota ;ISBN: 081664991X ;ISBN: 9780816649914 ;EISBN: 081665431X ;EISBN: 9780816654314 ;OCLC: 567946911 ;LCCallNum: G69.T84 -- A3 2007eb

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  • Title:
    Beijing: First Impressions
  • Author: Tuan, Yi-Fu
  • Subjects: Applied arts ; Architecture ; Arts ; Behavioral sciences ; First impressions ; Friendship ; Interpersonal relations ; Psychology ; Social perception ; Social psychology ; Travel writing
  • Is Part Of: Coming Home to China, 2007, p.5
  • Description: We circled over Beijing for a half hour so that we could arrive on time at 9:25 p.m. As the plane hovered a few hundred feet above the runway, I looked out of the window and saw a dark night scene with scattered low-lying houses. That was the China I expected to find, for that was the China I had left behind. Still drowsy, I recalled the smell of manure and the noise of croaking frogs that dark night on the outskirts of Chongqing so long ago. The bump our airplane made as it touched ground woke me from my
  • Publisher: United States: University of Minnesota Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 081664991X
    ISBN: 9780816649914
    EISBN: 081665431X
    EISBN: 9780816654314
    OCLC: 567946911
    LCCallNum: G69.T84 -- A3 2007eb
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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