Geography is my first love; the study of location. I incorporated geography into my research this year. One way to represent spatial research is to use maps. Here is a map of my home and my field site during my Fulbright. Some of you have told me you don't know where Nanjing is located. You can zoom out on the map below and see where Nanjing sits in relation to the rest of China:
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Photo Essay: Mapping Old Nanjing- Click on this link and you can take a walk with me around my field site.
My friend Evan and I walked around Old Nanjing one day and traced our tracks, outlining my definition of the boundaries and the main alleys of the neighborhood. If you click on the link above, you'll see the maps I've included below with pictures associated with various points of my neighborhood, including my house. Below are the boundaries and alleys of the urban village of Old Nanjing, as seen on Google Maps. Note: these are screen shots, so you can't zoom in:
Here is the satellite image:
Thank you to Evan for letting me use his camera equipment and accompanying me on this trip. I hope that these maps and the pictures associated with them have helped my readers visualize my life in China a little bit better. These maps will also hopefully help me remember my time in Old Nanjing during the past year.
Chinese word of the day:
想家- xiang3 jia1- literally "to think of home" aka homesick
"Welcome back! (notice I don't say home because I know you left one of your homes...)" -a dear friend, in an email the day I returned to the States.
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