Nomadism in Mongolia

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Thu Dec 26 17:21:38 PST 2002


From a niece of Owen Lattimore, victim of McCarthyism, ("...Baltimore Evening Sun: "M'CARTHY CITES LATTIMORE, THREE OTHERS AS 'PRO-RED.'") who wrote on Mongolia. (Marxist Perspectives, the short lived journal of Eugene Genovese et. al. in the late 70's, published a piece by Lattimore on Mongolia.)

<URL: http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0201web/letters.html >
> ...Your article <URL: http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0900web/red.html >
did not mention [Owen's] best-known work, "The Inner Asian Frontiers of China," which is still considered to be a definitive text on that subject. Few foreigners have known Mongolia as he did. The notion of his being a "Russian spy" was particularly ludicrous because it was the Mongols he always championed, against both the Russians and the Chinese. If it had not been for family ties he would have liked to have ended his days in a Mongol yurt. Marguerite Frost (MA'54) Halifax, Nova Scotia

-- Michael Pugliese



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