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Lattimore, Owen was born on July 29, 1900 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of David and Margaret (Barnes) Lattimore.
(In inner Mongolia in 1927, when travel by rail had all bu...)
In inner Mongolia in 1927, when travel by rail had all but eclipsed the traditional camel caravan, Owen Lattimore embarked on the journey that would establish him as a legendary adventurer and leader among Asian scholars. THE DESERT ROAD TO TURKESTAN is Lattimore's elegant and spirited account of his harrowing expedition across the famous "Winding Road." Setting off to rejoin his wife for their honeymoon in Chinese Turkestan, Lattimore was forced to contend with marauding troops, a lack of maps, scheming travel companions, and blinding blizzard. Luckily he had with him not only his father's retainer, Moses, but a team of camel pullers and Chinese traders he had assembled to teach him the ropes about their mysterious and now extinct way of life. Lattimore's gifts as a linguist and his remarkable powers of observation lend his chronicle an immediacy and force that has lost now of its impact in the decades since its original publication.
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(MANCHURIA CRADLE OF CONFLICT by OWEN LATTIMORE. Originall...)
MANCHURIA CRADLE OF CONFLICT by OWEN LATTIMORE. Originally published in 1931. INTRODUCTION: THIS book is founded on the experience gained during about nine months of travel and residence in Manchuria, in 1929-30, under a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, New York. Previous experience on the borders of China and Inner Mongolia, and a long journey through Mon golia and Chinese Turkestan, had convinced me that a study of Manchuria must be essential to an understanding of the vast territory that lies between China and Russia. Manchuria, Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan were once important as the lands in which the northern barbarians of Chinas frontier maneuvered in war and migration, working out among their own tribes their destinies of conquest in China or migration toward the West. They are now becoming a field of contest between three types of civilization the Chinese, the Russian and the Western. In our generation the most acute rivalry is in Manchuria, and the chief protagonist of the Western civilization is Japan whose interpretation and application of a borrowed culture is of acute interest to the Western world, as on it turns to a great extent the choice which other nations have yet to make between their own indigenous cultures and the rival conquering cultures of Russia and the West. During our stay in Manchuria my wife and I tried to make our experience as varied as possible, but at the same time to stay long enough in each region studied to insure that our impressions should not be too superficial. Thus we spent part of the winter in one room at an inn, in a mud-walled boom town on the Western frontiers of Manchuria, where Chinese colonists are rapidly taking over Mongol pastures and opening them to cultivation. Then we moved to another one room lodging in an old thatched schoolhouse, in a small town in Kirin province, where the population was old-fash ioned and predominantly Manchu. In the spring I went up again to the Western frontiers and traveled, first by military motor convoy and then riding with border troopers, among the Mongols. When the ice broke up on the great Sungari river, I traveled on one of the first steamers down to the junction of the Sungari with the Amur about four hundred miles. As the steamers were afraid to venture into the Amur, no settlement having yet been made of the dispute between China and Russia, I traveled on by cart, with a good deal of difficulty, for some distance along the flooded banks of the Amur, among the Fishskin Tatars. Later in the summer I visited Hailar, in the Barga region. In the intervals between traveling, or making long stays in the country, we visited the chief cities Mukden, Dairen, Harbin and Kirin city or made short stays at smaller towns, or in villages, or at temples in the hills. In the larger towns we naturally did our best to meet well-informed people of all nationalities, but out in the country we rarely saw a for eigner, and often went for weeks without speaking English except to each other. As we traveled very simply, had no need of an interpreter, used always the same means of travel as the people of the region and lived in the same kind of houses or inns, our contact with the life about us was as close as possible. We were thus able to collect a great deal of local tradition not only legend and folklore, but the memories of the older inhabitants besides noting the signs of that modern progress which is the chief enthusiasm of the younger generation...
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Owen Lattimore was a legendary adventurer, scholar and government adviser. High Tartary is a rich, panoramic, yet intensely personal record of the adventures he and his wife met on their wedding trip through the highest parts of Asia. It is a classic tribute to Asia's proud nomads and their mountain homelands. Includes 29 original photos.
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(This book, first published in 1940 by the American Geogra...)
This book, first published in 1940 by the American Geographical Society in its International Research Series, has remained the classic study of the Central Asian region of China from ancient times to the period immediately prior to World War II. In particular, Lattimore examines the effect of the region's frontier status on its history and development. The book is based on extensive travel and research throughout the region as well as on exhaustive reading in Chinese, Russian, Mongolian and English sources.
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Lattimore, Owen was born on July 29, 1900 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of David and Margaret (Barnes) Lattimore.
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.
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.
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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).
Married Eleanor Holgate, March 4, 1926 (deceased March 1970). 1 child, David.