与西方地理学界正讨论激烈的“地理学公众危机”相比,中国地理学近60年的发展显然有些“例外”:以国家需求为导向,解决国民经济发展中的重大地理学问题,“以任务带动学科”,是中国近60年来的独特发展道路,并取得了一系列重大成就。针对目前西方地理学界讨论热烈的“地理学公众危机”和西方地理学者对中国地理学成就缺乏了解的情况,本文考察了西方地理学界对中国地理学的认识状况,分析了中国现代地理学的发展方略,梳理出具有中国特色且达到一定世界水平的地理学思想及其成就,论述了日益具有国际影响的中国地理学进展。
Compared with the drastic debating of "public identity crisis in geographies" in western geographies in these years, the development of Chinese geographies in last 60 years is exception in some ways. Depended national demaiad, resolved some grave geographical problems in national economy, "task promoting subject development" is aunique strategy in Chinese geographies, and produced series of great achievement in 60 years. Contraposed the drastic debateing of "public identity crisis in geographies" in western geographies and scarce understanding of Chinese geographies in western geographers, this article inspectes the condition of Chinese geographies in views of western geographers, cardes out series geographical thought and achievement possessed Chinese characteristic.