Asian Frontier Nationalism: Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate

Lattimore is best known for his vilification by the McCarthyites, who alleged that he and other State Department Asian experts had delivered China to the Communists. This intellectual biography places that episode in the context of a lifetime effort to understand China and Mongolia, and to affect American perceptions of Asia. Lattimore's later (post-McCarthy) work concerned the Mongols and their revolution, as well as the frontier as a phenomenon in world political geography. Accessible to a general readership. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.