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Inner asian frontiers of china

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Owen Lattimore was born in 1900 and spent his early childhood in China where he lived, after education abroad, more or less continuously from 1919 to 1942. During this period he travelled widely in Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Manchuria, often with his wife Eleanor. His career, which started in commerce, turned to academic, political, and diplomatic work; and at various times he was adviser to the Chinese leader, Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), and the Government of the United States of America. In 1963 he became Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, and in 1970 Professor Emeritus. At the time of writing he is still actively concerned with the world of Oriental Studies.rnrnOwen Lattimore is a polymath impossible to classify traveller, linguist (Chinese, Manchu, Mongol, and various Turkic languages are but part of his repertoire), controversial political polemicist, influencer of national policy, scholar and academic administrator, and much else. Of all his published work, which is indeed voluminous, Inner Asian Frontiers of China (first published in 1940 by The American Geographical Society of New York) probably remains the best known and most frequently referred to; and it is the book which has exerted most influence on others. The reasons for this the reader can judge for himself in the pages that follow: all that an introducer can do is to describe his own reactions upon first encountering this book.

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911.51 Lat i

Publisher

Amerika Serikat : Lattimore., 1940

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xxiii, 585 pages

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-582781-3

Classification

911.51

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Subject(s)

Geography

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