Abstract
Development geography in Norway has been well established for some time at the Universities of Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim. This sub-discipline of human geography was introduced in Oslo in 1974. Aadel Brun Tschudi, who had lived in China for the first 14 years of her life, then set up a special course with a separate examination on development problems in the Third World for the second-year human geography students. This was at a time when there was widespread interest in the achievements of Maoist China in the redistribution of resources, incomes and assets in order to bring hundreds of millions of people out of food poverty. Tschudi's writings in development geography focused on the People's Communes and agricultural production in China (Norwegian Journal of Geography/Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift No. 1, 1973). Her teaching covered a large thematic and geographical range, and Tschudi's emphasis on prioritizing of the fundamental problems of the common people in her course programme, seminars and lectures, ...
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