Lattimore, Owen

Lattimore, Owen

▪ American sinologist
born July 29, 1900, Washington, D.C., U.S.
died May 31, 1989, Providence, R.I.
 American sinologist, a victim of McCarthyism in the 1950s.

      The brother of poet Richmond Lattimore, Owen Lattimore spent much of his childhood in China, where his father was a teacher. From 1926 he was engaged in research and writing, traveling throughout Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Manchuria. He was director of the Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., from 1939 to 1953 and was a lecturer at Johns Hopkins from 1938 to 1963. In 1963–70 he was director of the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, Eng.

      In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy (McCarthy, Joseph R.) accused Lattimore of being a Soviet espionage agent. A Senate committee exonerated him later that year, but the investigation was revived by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, and in 1952 he was indicted for perjury in connection with testimony that he had given before the subcommittee. In 1955 the Justice Department dropped all charges against him.

      Fluent in Chinese, Russian, and Mongol, Lattimore was regarded as a leading expert on the China-Russia frontier. He published many books on Asia and an account of the McCarthy episode, Ordeal by Slander (1950).

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