关键词: 曾昭璇, 地理学, 经世致用, "浅、广、新"

Abstract:

Professor Zeng Zhaoxuan(1921-2007), a celebrated geographer, geomorphologist and educationalist, initiated and promoted southern-styled methodology' all his life. He attached great importance to field work, read extensively and made great efforts in advancing innovations. He was an erudite scholar and involved himself in a wide spectrum of disciplines and technologies. His efforts were highly contributive in such fields as physical geography, geomorphology, historical geography, anthropological geography, local records, ethnology and folklore. One after another, he ushered in three new fields in geology, namely: 'rock geomorphology', historical geomorphology' and anthropological geography', filling in gaps disciplines. Professor Zeng insisted on practice first' all the time and advocated that the geographic science is a discipline for the sole purpose of application'. He recommended that scientific researches should be integrated with production and serve national economic construction. Besides scientific researches, Professor Zeng devoted his whole life to education and to the cultivation of geographers. He considered that students' academic proficiency and scientific quality was predominated by the textbooks, thus gaving top priority to the teaching material. He proposed that the geomorphological teaching material should be language easy to understand, contents diversified and knowledge up-to-date. These three aspects were not only required by the compiling of geomorphological teaching material, but also a unique idea for higher geomorphological education.

Key words: Zeng Zhaoxuan, geography, practice first, its language easy to understand, its contents diversified and its knowledge up-to-date