Owen Lattimore
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 then taught at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1938 to 1963. He was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations there 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 American policy in Asia. From 1963 to 1970, Lattimore was the first Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds in England.
Owen Lattimore's Published Works
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- Inner Asian frontiers of China (1941) (491)
- Pivot of Asia: Sinkiang and the Inner Asian Frontiers of China and Russia (1950) (81)
- Studies in frontier history : collected papers, 1928-1958 (1964) (70)
- The frontier in history (1955) (63)
- The rise of Chingis Khan and his conquest of North China (1951) (41)
- Inner Asian Frontiers of China. (1940) (38)
- Chinese in American Life. Some Aspects of their History, Status, Problems, and Contributions. (1963) (38)
- The Geographical Factor in Mongol History (1938) (36)
- Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers, 1928-1958. (1964) (36)
- Central Asia: A Century of Russian Rule (1967) (34)
- Origins of the Great Wall of China: A Frontier Concept in Theory and Practice (1937) (33)
- Pivot of Asia. (1950) (29)
- Outer Mongolia and its international position (1950) (26)
- Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia (1956) (25)
- The frontier in perspective (1958) (25)
- Chingis Khan and the Mongol Conquests (1963) (22)
- The Mongols of Manchuria : their tribal divisions, geographical distribution, historical relations with Manchus and Chinese and present political problems (1935) (22)
- Mongolia and the Mongols (1971) (21)
- The desert road to Turkestan (20)
- Frontier Dilemmas in Central Asia: Review@@@Britain and Chinese Central Asia: The Road to Lhasa 1767 to 1905 (1960) (19)
- China and Inner Asia. (1976) (18)
- Manchuria: Cradle of conflict (1973) (18)
- Solution In Asia (1945) (17)
- Inner Asian Frontiers: Chinese and Russian Margins of Expansion (1947) (16)
- The Mongol world empire, 1206-1370 (1977) (15)
- Key Economic Areas in Chinese History (1937) (15)
- The Situation in Asia. (1949) (11)
- Historical Geography of Taiwan: Review@@@China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan (1982) (11)
- The Diluv Khutagt. Memoirs and Autobiography of a Mongol Buddhist Reincarnation in Religion and Revolution (1982) (9)
- Russo-Japanese Relations (1936) (8)
- FEUDALISM IN HISTORY (1957) (8)
- Russo-Chinese Borderlands. (1962) (8)
- The Geography of Chingis Khan (1963) (7)
- Chinese Colonization in Manchuria (1932) (7)
- China Memoirs: Chiang Kai-Shek and the War Against Japan (1991) (7)
- The New Political Geography of Inner Asia (1953) (6)
- The Pivot of Asia (1951) (6)
- East Turkistan to the twelfth century (1964) (5)
- Return to China's Northern Frontier (1973) (5)
- Empire in the East (1934) (5)
- Satellite Politics: the Mongolian Prototype (1956) (5)
- An Inner Asian Approach to the Historical Geography of China (1947) (4)
- Caravan Routes of Inner Asia: The Third "Asia Lecture" (1928) (4)
- The Mongol Empire : Genghis Khan, his triumph and his legacy (1977) (4)
- Prince, Priest and Herdsman in Mongolia (1935) (4)
- The Chinese People and the Chinese Earth (1966) (4)
- Crisis in Asia (1950) (4)
- Yunnan, Pivot of Southeast Asia (1943) (4)
- After Four Years (1941) (3)
- The Historical Setting of Inner Mongolian Nationalism (1936) (3)
- New road to Asia (1944) (3)
- Political Conditions in Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan (1930) (3)
- Edgar Snow's China: A Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution Compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow. By Lois Wheeler Snow. [London: Orbis; New York: Random House; Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1981. 284 pp. £7·95.] (1983) (3)
- Land of blue sky (1956) (3)
- Silks, spices and empire: Asia seen through the eyes of its discoverers (1973) (3)
- The making of modern China (1944) (3)
- Some Recent Inner Asian Studies (1947) (2)
- The making of modern China : a short history (1944) (2)
- The Issue in Asia (1946) (2)
- The South East Asian World@@@The Southeast Asian City (1967) (2)
- From China looking outward (1964) (2)
- Western and Central Asians in China under the Mongols: Their Transformation into Chinese. By Ch'en Yuan, translated and annotated by Ch'ien Hsing-Hai and L. Carrington Goodrich. (Monumenta Serica Monograph XIV.) pp. iv, 328. University of California, Los Angeles, 1966. (1967) (2)
- The Fight for Democracy in Asia (1942) (2)
- The Tale of the Nisan Shamaness: A Manchu Folk Epic.@@@Chamanes Toungouses. (1978) (2)
- Religion and Revolution in Mongolia (1967) (2)
- The Outer Mongolian Horizon (1946) (2)
- Inner Mongolia-Chinese, Japanese or Mongol? (1937) (2)
- China : a short history (1944) (2)
- America and Asia : problems of today's war and the peace of tomorrow (1943) (2)
- Mongolia Enters World Affairs (1934) (2)
- Douglas Carruthers and Geographical Contrasts in Central Asia The First Douglas Carruthers Memorial Lecture (1978) (2)
- Wulakai Tales from Manchuria (1933) (1)
- The Mongols of Manchuria@@@Tents in Mongolia (Yabonah): Adventures and Experiences among the Nomads of Central Asia (1935) (1)
- Mongolian heroes of the twentieth century (1979) (1)
- China's Turkistan-Siberian Supply Road (1940) (1)
- The Chinese as a dominant race (1)
- Stalemate in China (1941) (1)
- China in Crisis, Vol. I: China's Heritage and the Communist Political System.@@@China in Crisis, Vol. II: China's Policies in Asia and America's Alternatives. (1970) (1)
- Asia Between Two World Wars. By J. F. Normano. [Proceedings of the Graduate Seminar on Economic Problems of Modern Asia, Vol. I.] New York: Iranian Institute and School of Asiatic Studies, 1944. Pp. 89. $2.00 (1945) (1)
- From China looking outward : an inaugural lecture. (1964) (1)
- At the Crossroads of Inner Asia (1950) (1)
- Eloge: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) (1963) (1)
- Russia and Nationalism in Central Asia: The Case of Tadzhikistan. By Rakowska-Harmstone Teresa. Published in cooperation with the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, the George Washington University. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. Pp. xiii, 325. $10.95.) (1971) (1)
- Analecta Mongolica : dedicated to the Seventieth Birthday of Professor Owen Lattimore (1972) (1)
- Point Four and the Third Countries (1950) (1)
- Lattimore and Sven Hedin in the Gobi@@@The Desert Road to Turkestan@@@Auf grosser Fahrt: Meine Expedition mit Schweden, Deutschen und Chinesen durch die Wuste Gobi 1927-28 (1929) (1)
- History of the Mongols. Based on Eastern and Western Accounts of the 13th and 14th Centuries. (1974) (1)
- To Lhasa and Beyond. Diary of the Expedition to Tibet in the Year 1948.@@@Turkestan Alive. New Travels in Chinese Central Asia.@@@Nepal-Landet Under Jordens Tak.@@@Menneskets Mangfoldighed. Twelve Ethnographic Studies. (1958) (1)
- The Unknown Frontier of Manchuria (1933) (1)
- America and Asia.@@@American Empire in Asia? (1944) (0)
- Chinese Science and Civilization (1957) (0)
- Travels and Politics in Chinese Turkestan@@@High Tartary (1932) (0)
- Book Review:Stalin's Failure in China 1924-1927 Conrad Brandt (1960) (0)
- Joseph Needham: Time and Eastern man: the Henry Myers Lecture, 1964. (Royal Anthropological Institute. Occasional Paper No. 21.) ix, 52 pp. [London]: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1965. £1. (1966) (0)
- A Treasury of Inner Asian History and Culture: A Review Article (1977) (0)
- Lawrence Krader: Peoples of central Asia . (Indiana University Publications.Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol.26.) xiv, 319 pp., 2 maps [in endpocket]. Bloomington: Indiana University; The Hague: Moutonand Co., 1963. $4, guilders 14.50. (1965) (0)
- China in the Sun . Randall Gould. (1946) (0)
- Book reviews. (1980) (0)
- Young Days in Tibet.@@@Wind Between the Worlds. (1958) (0)
- Inner Asia, A Syllabus . By Denis Sinor. (Vol. 96 of Uralic and Altaic Series.) Indiana University: Bloomington, and Mouton: The Hague, 1969. Pp. 261, $7.00. (1970) (0)
- Chinese Agent in Mongolia. A Report on the Birth of the Mongolian People's Republic (1950) (0)
- Manchuria since 1931 (1950) (0)
- Selected short stories (1978) (0)
- Mongolia, unknown land (1964) (0)
- Key to Japan@@@Eclipse of the Rising Sun (1946) (0)
- The Phantom of Mengkukuo (1937) (0)
- The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan.@@@The Silk Road. (1980) (0)
- Book Review:Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao Benjamin I. Schwartz (1952) (0)
- History of Chinese Society: Liao (907-1125) Karl A. Wittfogel Fêng Chia-shêng (1950) (0)
- History and revolution in China (1970) (0)
- Mongols of the Twentieth Century. Parts I and II . By Robert A. Rupen. Indiana University: Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 37. The Hague, Mouton and Co., 1964. Pp. 510 and 167. n.p. (1966) (0)
- The citizen and American policy in Asia (1950) (0)
- Nei Wai Meng Ku K'ao Ch'a Jih Chi (Journal of Investigations in Inner and Outer Mongolia). (1934) (0)
- Book Reviews (1966) (0)
- Russian and Soviet Policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911–1931 . By Peter S. H. Tang. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1959. xx, 494. Appendix, Bibliography, Index, Maps, List of Abbreviations. $10.00. (1960) (0)
- The Geographical Factor in Mongol History: Discussion (1938) (0)
- The Legend of Cuckoo Namjil (1986) (0)
- Their origin, history, and social organization (1954) (0)
- E. D. Phillips: The Mongols. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969. (Vol. 64, Ancient Peoples and Places). 170 pp., 32 pls., 34 figs, 3 maps. 42s. (1969) (0)
- [The Nomads of Asia: Structure, Economy and Social Organisation]. (1978) (0)
- Mongols of Manchuria@@@The Mongols of Manchuria: Their Tribal Divisions, Geographical Distribution, Historical Relations with Manchus and Chinese, and Present Political Problems (1935) (0)
- JAMES RUSSELL HAMILTON, Les Ouïghours à l'époque des Cinq Dynasties d'après les documents chinois . — Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, Presses Universitaires de France 1955. Pp. 201. (Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Vol. X) (1959) (0)
- A Nostalgia for Camels . By Christopher Rand. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1957. 279. $3.75 (1958) (0)
- The Problem of Japan. (1945) (0)
- Failure in Japan . By Robert B. Textor, with an Introduction by Owen Lattimore. New York: The John Day Company, 1951. xxiv, 262. Index. $3.00. (1952) (0)
- Books Received (1962) (0)
- Inner Asian Frontiers of China@@@White Settlers in the Tropics (1940) (0)
- Chinese Statelets and the Northern Barbarians in the Period 1400–300 B.C. By Janoslav Průšek. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences: Prague; W. Reidel Publishing Co.: Dordrecht, 1971. Pp. 312. No price. (1974) (0)
- Kukushkin: A Geographer's Tales. (1963) (0)
- Book Review:Mao Tse-tung. Selected Works, Vol. I: 1926-1936 (1954) (0)
- Minorities in the Soviet Far East (1944) (0)
- Inner Asia, From Inside and Out (1954) (0)
- Archaeology in China, Vol. III: Chou China by Chêng Tê-k'un. Cambridge: Heffer, 1963. 462 pp., 44 pls., 43 figs. 4 maps. £5 5s. (1965) (0)
- Book Review:Documents on Communism, Nationalism, and Soviet Advisers in China, 1918-27 C. Martin Wilber, Julie Lien-ying How (1958) (0)
- A Soviet Analysis of Chinese Civilization (1944) (0)
- Mongolian folktales and stories : in English and Mongolian (1979) (0)
- Ideology and Organization in Communist China. By Franz Schurmann. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles; and Cambridge University Press: London, 1966. Pp. xlvi + 540, sketch map and illustrations, $12.50, 100s. (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Beyond the Urals: Economic Development in Soviet Asia Violet Conolly (1970) (0)
- China . Edited by Harley Farnsworth MacNair. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1946. Pp. xxv, 573. $6.50.) (1947) (0)
- The eclipse of inner Mongolian nationalism (1936) (0)
- News of the Chingis Khan relics (1952) (0)
- The China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission. Herbert FeisMoscow and Chinese Communists. Robert C. North (1954) (0)
- A Saga of the Caravans: Review@@@The Desert Road to Turkestan (1929) (0)
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