作为中国人文地理学鉴镜的段义孚思想

段义孚的人文主义地理学在西方学界和社会引起巨大反响,但中国地理学界对其认识还非常欠缺,相关研究更是迟滞。针对目前常见的对段义孚的研究是否属于地理学以及如何把握和推广等问题,本文进行了回应和解释,并探讨了段义孚的思想与学术对中国人文地理学的启示与借鉴意义。作为中国人文地理学发展的一面镜子,段义孚不但具有开创精神,而且40多年的坚持更是令人敬佩;广泛取材于历史、人文以及其他学科,经验的方法,流畅生动的文风值得学习和推广;对其的专门研究应当得到鼓励;其理论不但具有较大普适性,而且是治疗人文素养和精神欠缺的中国人文地理学的一剂良药。

YI-FU TUAN'S HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY AS A MIRROR OF CHINESE HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Yi-Fu Tuan's humanistic geography takes a significant position in Anglo-American human geography, and attracts many ordinary readers. On the contrary, many Chinese human geographers often lack deep awareness on Tuan and humanistic geography, the relative and special researches on them are not enough.On Yi-Fu Tuan's thought and humanistic geography, there are three questions put forward by some Chinese human geographers:is it a geography? can it spread and popularize? what does it do for Chinese human geography? This article answers the three questions, explains and explores the Tuan's ideas, methodology and wisdom. As a mirror reflecting the development of China's human geography, Tuan is not only a pioneer which initiate a school, but also a great humanism thinker. He is admirable because of the insistence on humanistic geography more than 40 years. His methodology is based on the experience which means senses (such as smell, taste and touch), emotion and thought, and he stresses a cross-disciplinary humanism method integrating history, culture and other humanities. Tuan often use some interesting cases and the elegant languages to discover and pass a profound concept or theory, which makes his thought known and learned widely. Tuan's wisdom have mainly three points:Sensitivity and insight, full of imagination, and self-reflection,and the last is very important for humanistic geographer. Tuan's thought and humanistic geography should be studied and promoted by Chinese human geographers in order to make up the lack of humanism. For Chinese academic, it is high time that try their best to study and popularize Tuan's thought and humanistic geography to China.