本文探索人文地理学从十九世纪中叶以来的发展特点。重点在于介绍人文地理学在发展新的理论、新的方法和新的部门所取得的意义。
人文地理学在我国是随着二十年代开始的近代地理教育而发展的。本文还讨论了我国不同时期人文地理学发展的特点以及城市地理、人口地理、旅游地理和历史地理在七十年代后所取得的进展。此外,该文还提出政治地理,文化地理、行为地理等部门的研究仍然比较落后。最后,该文对人文地理学各部门今后发展作了预测。

This article approaches the development survey and characteristics of Human Geography from the middle of 19th century. It puts emphasis on introducing the significant achievements of Human Geography in developing new theories, new methods and new sections.
Human Geography in our country began to develop along with the development of Advanced Geography Education in 1920s. This article also discusses the developments and characteristics of Human Geography in our country in chronological sequence, and goes further into the distinguished progresses of Human Geography in Urban Geography, Population Geography, Geography of Tourism and Historical Geography in our country after 1970s. Additionally, it points out that the study of some geographical sections such as Political Geography, Cultural Geography. Behavioral Geography and so on relatively lags behind. IN the end, the paper advances the general develop-ment of every section of Human Geography.