Contents -- Preface -- The Long Flight -- Beijing: First Impressions -- A Walk in the Neighborhood and a Gustatory Shock -- The Summer Palace -- A Speech to Architects: A Tour de Force? -- FIRST LECTURE: Space, Time, and Architecture -- A Busy Day with a Satisfactory Ending -- Another Hotel and a Campus Tour -- Showing Off in Chinese and English -- SECOND LECTURE: Humanistic Geography -- My Student Guides -- Lecture and Tours in Beijing -- THIRD LECTURE: A Question in Human Geography -- Good-bye Beijing, Hello Chongqing -- Touring "Authentic" Chongqing -- Revisiting My Childhood: Nankai Middle School -- First Day on the Yangtze River -- Second Day on the Yangtze River -- Stopover in Yichang -- Shanghai: Old Memories and New Experiences -- Last Day: Food Poisoning and Conversation -- To the Airport and Home -- Reflections -- Acknowledgments.