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Owen Lattimore

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Owen Lattimore 1900-1989, American author and educator, b. Washington, D.C. He was educated (1915-19) at St. Bees School, Cumberland, England, and did graduate research (1928-29) at Harvard. From 1920 to 1926 he was engaged in business and newspaper work in China. Afterward he traveled and did research for various organizations in China, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Chinese Turkistan, writing such books as Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict (1932) and The Mongols of Manchuria (1934). He was (1938-50) director of the Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins. In 1950 he was accused... Read more

Lattimore, Owen 1900-1989
American Decades LATTIMORE, OWEN 1900-1989 Asian scholar Asian Expertise Owen Lattimore, who served from 1938 to 1941 as director of the Walter...More Overseas Posts and Recall to Duty In late 1942 Lattimore became the deputy director of the overseas branch of... Read more

Lattimore, Owen
The Oxford Companion to American Literature Lattimore, Owen (1900–1989), brother of Richmond Lattimore, was a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty (1938–63) and of the University of Leeds in England (1963–70) but is also... Read more

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	DEATHS ELSEWHERE Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/2/1989; 25 words ; Owen Lattimore, 88, renowned China scholar who was called the top Soviet spy in the United States by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s; Wednesday at Providence, R.I. Read more
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