Owen Lattimore (1900–1989)
Autor de The Desert Road to Turkestan
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Owen Lattimore
Inner Asian frontiers of China (American Geographical Society [of New York] Research series) 1 copia
Freedoms and foreign policy 1 copia
China, a short history 1 copia
History and Revolution in China 1 copia
Viaje a Mongolia 1 copia
Freedoms in Foreign Policy 1 copia
The Diluv Khutagt: Memoirs and autobiography of a Mongol Buddhist reincarnation in religion and revolution (Asiatische… (1982) 1 copia
Manchuria; cradle of conflict 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Mundos para explorar : historias clásicas de viajes y aventuras del National Geographic (2006) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1900-07-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1989-05-31
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- professor
- Relaciones
- Lattimore, Richmond (brother)
Lattimore, Eleanor Frances (sister) - Organizaciones
- Johns Hopkins University
University of Leeds
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 27
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 330
- Popularidad
- #71,937
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 23
The background of the journey is the chaos of early 20th century China, corrupt and venal officialdom and marauding warlords. The foreground is the Gobi Desert peopled by camels and camelmen. Lattimore's narrative is sufficiently interesting when he's recounting events of his journey, but less so when he begins to lecture loftily about anthropology ("though so few in numbers, [the Edsin Gol Turguts] show, like other Mongols, divergent physical types, proving that the Mongols are not of unmixed blood"). Sometimes he sets out, apparently, to be a witty man-of-the-world type and succeeds in being offensive: contrasting the Mongol to the Qazaq (Kazakh) character, he offers it as his opinion that after centuries of history, "milling and swirling and campaigning and countermarching", "God let the whole stew simmer for a while and when the scum came up he called it Qazaq."… (más)