{"id":72,"date":"2010-12-23T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2011-02-07T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T21:34:27","slug":"owen-lattimore-out-of-print-but-never-out-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Owen Lattimore: Out Of Print, But Never Out Of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pages of &#8220;The Browser&#8221; book blog feature <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrowser.com\/interviews\/michael-dillon-on-uyghur-nationalism\">an appreciation of Owen Lattimore from Michael Dillon<\/a>, author of \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Xinjiang: China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muslim Far Northwest.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Dillon discusses Lattimore&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0never surpassed writings on China&#8217;s inner-Asian frontiers and Xinjiang \u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 15.6px;\">The Browser interviews an area expert touting five books in their field, and \u00c2\u00a0Lattimore accounts for two of Dillon&#8217;s five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dillon mistakenly has Senator Joseph McCarthy chairing the House Un-American Activities Committee and poking Lattimore from that venue, but otherwise seems a sound fellow. \u00c2\u00a0If anything I think he kind of undersells Pivot of Asia, Lattimore&#8217;s Xinjiang book issued as McCarthy&#8217;s fraud was beginning to unfold in 1950. \u00c2\u00a0The book figured in the many investigations, with FBI wiretaps picking up conversations in Mongol between Lattimore and Mongol scholars he&#8217;d brought to Johns Hopkins to work on the book project. \u00c2\u00a0Also involved on the book was the Chinese scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/english\/culture\/68454.htm\">Chen Hansheng<\/a>, whose Comintern affiliation played a role in the McCarthy and McCarran hearings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-74\" title=\"Inner Asian frontiers of China\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Inner-Asian-frontiers-of-China-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Inner-Asian-frontiers-of-China-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Inner-Asian-frontiers-of-China.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> The Browser shares with us an image they appeared to have lifted from Amazon of a snappy 60s paperback cover for &#8220;Inner Asian Frontiers Of China,&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Amazon&#8217;s coming from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shops\/standard_books\">bookselle<\/a>r offering pricey editions of the tome. \u00c2\u00a0 The other Lattimore book mentioned, &#8220;Pivot of Asia,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/pivotofasiasinki012187mbp\">available free online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pages of &#8220;The Browser&#8221; book blog feature an appreciation of Owen Lattimore from Michael Dillon, author of \u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Xinjiang: China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muslim Far Northwest.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Dillon discusses Lattimore&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0never surpassed writings on China&#8217;s inner-Asian frontiers and Xinjiang \u00c2\u00a0The Browser interviews an area expert touting five books in their field, and \u00c2\u00a0Lattimore accounts for two of Dillon&#8217;s five. 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