Owen Lattimore

Born July 29, 1900, in Washington, D.C. American Orientalist.

Lattimore was educated in Switzerland and Great Britain. He lived in China from 1919 to 1937, and directed the journal Pacific Affairs from 1934 to 1941. On the recommendation of the president of the USA, F. D. Roosevelt, Lattimore served as Chiang Kai-shek’s political advisor during the years 1941–42. He became special advisor to the United States mission in Japan in 1945. Lattimore has been a professor at Leeds University in Great Britain since 1963, where he is chairman of the department of Chinese Studies. Most of Lattimore’s works are devoted to China and Mongolia.