High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yi-Fu Tuan ( born 5 December 1930) is a Chinese-American geographer. Tuan was born in 1930 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of a middle-class diplomat and was part of the educated class in the then Republic of China. Tuan attended University College, London, but graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in 1951 and 1955 respectively. From there he went to California to continue his geographic education. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley.