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Yi-Fu Tuan
Chinese-American geographer (1930-2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yi-Fu Tuan (Traditional Chinese: 段義孚; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-American geographer. He was an important person in the creation of human geography and humanistic geography. Tuan was born in Tianjin, China. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Tuan died on August 10, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin at the age of 91.[1]