Owen Lattimore (1900–1989)
Auteur de The Desert Road to Turkestan
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Owen Lattimore
Inner Asian frontiers of China (American Geographical Society [of New York] Research series) 1 exemplaire
Freedoms and foreign policy 1 exemplaire
China, a short history 1 exemplaire
History and Revolution in China 1 exemplaire
Viaje a Mongolia 1 exemplaire
Freedoms in Foreign Policy 1 exemplaire
The Diluv Khutagt: Memoirs and autobiography of a Mongol Buddhist reincarnation in religion and revolution (Asiatische… (1982) 1 exemplaire
Manchuria; cradle of conflict 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic (2006) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1900-07-29
- Date de décès
- 1989-05-31
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Professions
- professor
- Relations
- Lattimore, Richmond (brother)
Lattimore, Eleanor Frances (sister) - Organisations
- Johns Hopkins University
University of Leeds
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 330
- Popularité
- #71,937
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 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."… (plus d'informations)