Asian Frontier Nationalism: Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate

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Contents Preface Note on Romanisation Introduction Note on the Introduction 1 A Frontier Perspective Travel, Trade Routes and Geopolitics Manchuria and the Struggle of Civilisations Notes to Chapter One 2 Frontier Society and Mongol Nationalism The Mongol Predicament The Failure of Inner Mongolian Nationalism The Analysis of Mongol Society The Prospects for China Notes to Chapter Two 3 Inner Asian Frontiers Toynbee on the Nomads The Dynamics of Chinese Society The Argument of ‘Inner Asian Frontiers of China9 The Origins of Pastoral Nomadism The Origins of Chinese Civilisation The Pattern of Chinese History Cycles of Nomadic History and the Appearance of Marginal States Nomad - Chinese Interactions The Geographical Factor and the Social Structure Lattimore and Modern Scholarship Notes to Chapter Three 4 Geopolitics and Foreign Policy America and the Sino-Japanese War American War Aims in the Pacific American Policy in Postwar Asia Kohlberg’s Campaign Against Lattimore Postwar Political Solution in China The Failure of American Policy Lattimore and his Critics Notes to Chapter Four 5 Opinions on Trial The Tydings Loyalty Hearings The McCarran Investigation into the Institute of Pacific Relations Aftermath: the Perjury Charges Lattimore at the Tydings Hearings Lattimore at the McCarran Hearings Lattimore’s Academic Critics Rowe, McGovern and Colegrove on Lattimore Nicholas Poppe on Lattimore Karl Wittfogel and George Taylor Lattimore and the Debate on Postwar Policy Lattimore’s Assumptions and the Evolution of American Foreign Policy Notes to Chapter Five 6 Chinese and World Frontiers Frontiers and Foreign Policy in Asia The New Power Alignment in Asia The Historical Geography of Frontiers World Frontiers: a Later Exposition China and the Chinese Revolution Chinese Communism Contemporary Chinese and Asian frontiers Notes to Chapter Six 7 Mongol Civilisation, Past and Present Feudalism in Mongol History Feudalism and the State in the Marxist View of the Nomads Buddhism in Mongolia The Mongolian Revolution and Satellitism The Historiography of the Mongolian Revolution ‘SateHitism’ and Lattimore’s Assumptions Notes to Chapter Seven Conclusions Notes on Conclusions Bibliography Books Articles Index