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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On the one hand, I do have a personal bias toward the study of frontiers, and I share Rieber's admiration for the pioneering work of Owen Lattimore.

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In March, McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, an East Asian expert at The Johns Hopkins University, of being "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States.

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The importance of 'knowing your source, and the need to help pupils develop information literacy skills, was clearly brought home to history teacher Ben Walsh when he asked his GCSE students to research information about the Owen Lattimore case in the context of the McCarthyite 'Red Scare' in the USA in the 1950s:

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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.

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Echoing Owen Lattimore, Joseph Fletcher, and Andre Gunter Frank, Perdue considers this region a crossroads of the Eurasian continent, affecting historical processes in Asia and Europe.

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia

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Quite properly, she lists Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore as prime examples of liberal obstinacy, and she wonders very much out loud whether that obstinacy arose because these liberals were concerned with due process and the presumption of innocence and all that, or whether they were, in heart and mind, on the Soviet side in the Cold War.