Owen Lattimore
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican scholar of Central Asia (1900-1989)
Owen Lattimore was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia.
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"A halt on the march": Owen Lattimore in late 1926, on his first journey across Inner Asia. His diary from this journey on the "desert road to Turkestan" enabled him to write his first book, the start of his career as a scholar of the region.
Lattimore (Amsterdam, 1967)
Ti-Ch'in in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 1967. (Teach-in on China). Left to right: K.S. Karol (=Karol Kewes), Bertus Hendriks, George Cammelbeeck, Stuart Schram & Owen LattimoreAwards 2
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Owen Lattimore was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963. He was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations from 1939 to 1953. During World War II, he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the American government and contributed extensively to the public debate on U.S. policy toward Asia. From 1963 to 1970, Lattimore was the first Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds in England.
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