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Owen Lattimore

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Lattimore, Owen 

Born July 29, 1900, in Washington, D.C. American Orientalist.

Lattimore was educated in Switzerland and Great Britain. He lived in China from 1919 to 1937, and directed the journal Pacific Affairs from 1934 to 1941. On the recommendation of the president of the USA, F. D. Roosevelt, Lattimore served as Chiang Kai-shek’s political advisor during the years 1941–42. He became special advisor to the United States mission in Japan in 1945. Lattimore has been a professor at Leeds University in Great Britain since 1963, where he is chairman of the department of Chinese Studies. Most of Lattimore’s works are devoted to China and Mongolia.

WORKS

The Mongols of Manchuria. New York, 1934.
Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia. Oxford, 1955.

REFERENCE

Zlatkin, I. Ia. “Ouen Lattimor kak istorik vostoka.” In Protiv kolonializma. Moscow, 1960.
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Colgrove testified that Owen Lattimore informed him that "Chinese Communists under Mao Tsetung were real democrats and that they were really agrarian reformers and had no connection with Soviet Russia.
China betrayed: interventions by the U.S. foreign policy ... by Perloff, James / The New American
The departures of Americans to Britain for political reasons during the McCarthy era, such as China expert Owen Lattimore and movie director Sam Wanamaker, led some to question the intensity of the American commitment to freedom.
Exceptionalism in a time of stress by Wilson, Graham / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
In 1950, the senator denounced the China scholar Owen Lattimore as Russia's "top spy" in the State Department, an influential "China hand" who deliberately "lost" that country to Mao's communists by seeking to undermine Washington's support for Nationalist leader Chiang Kaishek.
McCarthy and his friends: the unconvincing rehabilitation of Tail ... by Moynihan, Michael C. / Reason
 
 
 
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