Background

Lattimore, Owen was born on July 29, 1900 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of David and Margaret (Barnes) Lattimore.

Education

Student, College Classique Cantonal, Laussane, Switzerland, 1914. Student, St. Bees School, Cumberland, England, 1919. Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1929.

Doctor of Letters (honorary), Glasgow (Scotland) University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Copenhagen, 1972. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Brown University, 1975.

Career

Engaged in business, Shanghai, China, 1920. Newspaper worker Tientsin, China, 1921. With Arnhold & Limited company, Tientsin and Peking, China, 1922-1926.

Research in Manchuria under Social Science Research Council, 1929-1930, in Peiping under Harvard Yenching Institute, 1930-1931, under J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1931-1933. Field work in Mongolia and research in Peiping under Institute Pacific Relations, 1934-1937. Lecturer Johns Hopkins, 1938-1963.

Director Walter Hines Page School International Relations, 193-53. Professor Chinese studies University Leeds (England), 1963-1970. Chichele lecturer Oxford (England) University, 1965.

Political adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, 1941-1942. Deputy director Pacific ops Office of War Information, 1942-1944.

Achievements

• Owen Lattimore has been listed as a notable Author, historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Inner Asian Frontiers of China

    (This book, first published in 1940 by the American Geogra...)

  • The Desert Road to Turkestan (Kodansha Globe)

    (In inner Mongolia in 1927, when travel by rail had all bu...)

  • Solution in Asia

    (Written by Owen Lattimore who was a political adviser to ...)

  • Silks, spices, and empire;: Asia seen through the eyes of its discoverers (The Great explorers series)

    (Asia as seen through the eyes of its discoverers-- Pliny,...)

  • High Tartary (Kodansha Globe)

    (Owen Lattimore was a legendary adventurer, scholar and go...)

  • Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers 1928-1958

    (Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers, 1928-1958)

  • Manchuria - Cradle Of Conflict

    (MANCHURIA CRADLE OF CONFLICT by OWEN LATTIMORE. Originall...)

  • The Situation in Asia

    (Publishing date is April, 1949. A must-read for understan...)

  • Pivot of Asia: Sinkiang and the inner Asian frontiers of China and Russia

    (history)

  • Inner Asian Frontiers of China, with Eleven Maps, the Historyical Georgraphy of the Great Wall of China, the Legendary and Earliest Historical Ages, the Age of National States, the Imperial Age

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  • Inner Asian Frontiers of China; American Geographical Society, Research Series, No. 21
  • Silks Spices & Empire Asia Seen Through
  • History and revolution in China.
  • The Mongols of Manchuria
  • The Desert Road to Turkestan , 19291929
  • The Making of Modern China: A Short History
  • Inner Asian Frontiers of China
  • Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia =, with a Translation from the Mongol of Sh. Nachukdorji's Life of Sukebatur
  • Nomads and Commissars: Mongolia Revisited
  • Mongol Journey
  • Solution in Asia
  • Pivot of Asia
  • High Tartary (Kodansha Globe) by Owen Lattimore (1994-12-04)
  • Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict
  • Mongol Journeys
  • Nationalism and revolution in Mongolia
  • Nomads and Commissars
  • Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia
  • Manchuria Cradle of Conflict
  • The Mongols of Manchuria Their Tribal Division
  • Silks, Spices and Empire
  • Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers 1929-58
  • The Desert Road to Turkestan (Kodansha Globe) by Owen Lattimore (1995-08-15)

Membership

Member Association Asian Studies, Royal Asiatic Society, Royal Geography Society (member council 1965-1966), Royal Center Asian Society, American Geography Society (honorary), American Philosophical Society, American History Association, Academy Science Mongolian People's Republic (foreign member), Czsoma Körösi Society (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).

Connections

Married Eleanor Holgate, March 4, 1926 (deceased March 1970). 1 child, David.

Father:

David Lattimore

Mother:

Margaret (Barnes) Lattimore

Spouse:

Eleanor Holgate

child:

David Lattimore