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Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) 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, [1] 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.
At the hearings, McCarthy expanded on his original list of unnamed individuals and made charges against nine others whose names he made public: Dorothy Kenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Duran, Owen Lattimore, Harlow Shapley, Frederick L. Schuman, John S. Service and Philip Jessup. Owen Lattimore became a particular focus of ...
The report of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1951 written by Senator Pat McCarran concluded that China was indeed "lost" because of the policy followed by the State Department, declaring: "Owen Lattimore and John Carter Vincent were influential in bringing about a change in United States policy [...] favorable to the Chinese ...
The Orientalist Owen Lattimore was director of the school from 1939 to 1953, [11] except for the years 1941 through 1944, which he spent in China. [4] The staff of the school mostly consisted of senior professors and postdoctoral students. [12] Under Lattimore, the school's direction changed to a focus upon Oriental studies and especially ...
From 1934 to 1942, the journal was edited by Owen Lattimore, then William L. Holland. The journal moved from the IPR headquarters in New York to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1961. [1] [2] Pressure from Senator Joseph McCarthy led to the dissolution of the IPR in 1960.
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.
[27] The scholar of political ecology, Paul Robbins, notes that Wittfogel, having been accused of being a communist sympathizer, protested loudly and accused Owen Lattimore and other colleagues of being communists; he wrote Oriental Despotism in the midst of this political struggle. [33]
Marcus Lattimore (born 1991), American football player; Marshon Lattimore (born 1996), American football player; The children of David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore: Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American educator, author and target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy; Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1904–1986), American author and illustrator of children's books