"The Middle Virgin River, Utah; a study in culture growth and change." (Sauer)

b. 11 September 1907, Bolivar, Missouri. m., Kathryn Wheeler Spencer, 1932. ch. none living.

A.B. University of California, Los Angeles, 1929.

University of California, Los Angeles (1940 to retirement in 1975) Professor of Geography, Department Chairman, 1953-1957, Professor Emeritus, 1975 -

University of Malaya, Singapore, Fulbright Lecturer, 1957-1958.

Visiting Professor: National Taiwan University, 1970; University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1975; Seoul National University, 1979.

Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1966; Outstanding Achievement Award, Assoc. Amer. Geographers, 1968. Award of George Davidson Medal for Research on the Pacific, Amer. Geog. Society, New York, 1974.

Editor, Yearbook, Assoc. Pac. Coast Geogr., 1949-1956; Editor, Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 1964-1969.

Land and People in the Philippines: Geographic Problems in Rural Economy. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press. 282 pp. 1952.

Asia, East by South, A Cultural Geography. New York: John Wiley. 453 pp. 1954. Revised edition (with W.L. Thomas), 669 pp. 1971.

Shifting Cultivation in Southeastern Asia. Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geography, vol. 19, 247 pp. 1 966.

Philippine Island World, A Physical, Cultural, and Regional Geography (with F.E. Wernstedt). Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. Calif. Press. 717 pp. 1967.

Regina Geographical Studies, No. 1, Saskatchewan Rural Themes. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: Univ. of Regina. 100 pp. 1977. (Editor)

Cultural Geography, An Evolutionary Introduction to our Humanized Earth. (with W.L. Thomas) New York: John Wiley. 591 pp. 1969. Revised short edition, with 3 new chapters, 410 pp. 1973. Second short edition 426 pp. 1978.

Oriental Asia, Themes Toward a Geography. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 146 pp. 1973.

Junks of Central China. College Station, Tx.: Texas A&M Press. 104 pp. 1976.

Day Tours in and Around Los Angeles. Palo Alto, CA.: Pacific Books. 368 pp. 1979. (Editor)

"Pueblo sites of southwestern Utah." American Anthropologist, 36:70-80, 1934.

"Salt in China." Geographical Review, 25:353-365, 1935.

"Trade and transshipment in the Yangtze Valley." Geographical Review, 28: 112-123, 1938.

"Gypsum and salt mining in Central Hupeh, China." Economic Geography, 14: 282-286, 1938.

"Changing Chungking; the rebuilding of an old Chinese city." Geographical Review, 29:46-60, 1939.

"The Szechwan village fair." Economic Geography, 16:48-58, 1940.

"Kueichou; an internal Chinese colony." Pacific Affairs, 13:162-172, 1940.

"Development of agricultural villages of southern Utah." Agricultural History, 14:181-189, 1940.

"Chinese place names and the appreciation of geographic realities." Geographical Review, 31:79-94, 1941.

"The Szechwan village tea house." Journal of Geography, 41:52-58, 1942.

"Housetypes of southern Utah." Geographical Review, 35 :444-457, 1945.

"The houses of the Chinese." Geographical Review, 37:254-273, 1947.

"On regionalism in China." Journal of Geography, 46:123-136, 1947.

"Hill stations and summer resorts of the Orient." (with W.L. Thomas), Geographical Review, 38:637-651, 1948.

"The Philippine rice problem." Far Eastern Survey, 18:125-128, 1949.

"Land use in the Philippine uplands." 1:27-56 of The Development of Upland Areas of the Far East. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1949.

"The Philippine Islands." Chapter 11, pp. 298-327, in O.W. Freeman (ed.), Geography of the Pacific. New York: John Wiley, 1951.

"Abacá and the Philippines." Economic Geography, 27:95-106, 1951.

"The Abacá plant, and its fiber, Manila hemp. " Economic Botany, 7:195-213, 1953.

"Philippine soil, water, and wood are worth money now." Philippine Geographical Journal, 5:57-69, 1957.

"Independent Malaya: the problems of Malayanization." Foreign Affairs Reports, Indian Council of World Affairs, 7:53-63, 1958.

"The cities of the Philippines." Journal of Geography, 57:288-294, 1958.

"Les Philippines" and "Les Indes Orientales." Geographie Universelle, 2:315-320 and 321-330. Paris: Libraire Larousse, 1959.

"Agriculture and population in relation to economic planning." (on China) Annals, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 321:62-70, 1959.

"Seasonality and the supply of fruit to Singapore." Geographical Review, 49:475-484, 1959.

"The cultural factor in underdevelopment: the case of Malaya." pp. 35-45 in N. Ginsburg (ed.), Essays on Geography and Economic Development. Chicago: University of Chlcago, Department of Geography. Research Paper No. 62, 1960.

"The origin, nature, and distribution of agricultural terracing." (with Ronald J. Horvath) Pacific Viewpoint, 2:1-40, 1961.

"Ancient China under modern communism, the comparative morphology of precommunist and communist society." California Geographer, 3:1-27, 1962.

"How does an agricultural region originate." (with Ronald J. Horvath) Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 53:74-92, 1963.

"The migration of rice from mainland southeast Asia into Indonesia." pp. 83-89 in J. Barrau (ed.), Plants and Migrations of Pacific Peoples. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1963.

"The development and spread of agricultural terracing in China." pp. 105-110 in S.G. Davis (ed.), Land Use and Mineral Deposits in Hong Kong, Southern China and South-East Asia. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1964.

"On charcoal burning and the role of the charcoal burner." pp. 48-55 in Discussion Papers for Columbus Meetings, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 1965. (Mimeo) Reprinted in Christopher L. Salter, The Cultural Landscape, as pp. 116-122. Belmont, Calif.: Duxbury-Wadsworth, 1971.

"The prospects for communist China today." Journal of Geography, 66:364-372, 1967.

"For forty years: Clifford M. Zierer." California Geographer, 8:67-68, 1968.

"Memorium: George M. McBride." Geographical Review, 62:428-430, 1972.

"The resurgence of modern China." Iowa Geographer, 32:3-12, 1973.

"The nature of agricultural systems." (with Norman R. Stewart) Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 63:529-544, 1973.

"The evolution of the discipline of geography in the twentieth century." Geographical Perspectives (Iowa), 33:20-36, 1974.

"Water control in terraced ricefield agriculture in southeastern Asia." pp. 59-65 in T.E. Downing and M.C. Gibson (eds.), Irrigation's Impact on Society. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1974.

"The control over water in southeast Asia." Published in French under the title "Le Maitrise de l'eau in Asie de Sud-Est," Etudes Rurales, No. 53: 73-94, 1974.

"The rise of maize as a major crop plant in the Philippines." Journal of Historical Geography, 1:1-16, 1975.

"Reflections on China watching, China, and Chineseness." The China Geographer, 1:1-12, 1975.

"What's in a Name?: 'The Berkeley School.'" Historical Geography Newsletter, 6:7-11, 1976.

"Chinese immigrants and Chinese culture in southeast Asia." pp. 475-485 in Laurence G. Thompson (ed.), Studia Asiatica: Essays in Asian Studies in Felicitation of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Professor Chen Shou-yi. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1976.

"Southeast Asia as the Chinese 'Nan Yang.'" The China Geographer, No. 6:1-18, 1977.

"The transformation of the traditional rural village." pp. 160-169 in Robert C. Eidt, Kashi N. Singh, and Rana P.B. Singh (eds.), Man, Culture, and Settlement. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1977.

"On Interpretation of systems of Chinese land tenure." The China Geographer, 10:41-52, 1978.

"The growth of cultural geography." American Behavioral Scientist, 22:79-92, 1978.

"A geographer west of the Sierra Nevada." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr. 69:46-52, 1979.

Also: over 100 major articles for various encyclopedias on subjects related to Eastern Asia; editor of 16 films on Asian subjects for Coronet Instructional Films, 1955-1972; approximately 90 book reviews to date.