The Desert Road to Turkestan

OWEN LATTIMORE was one of the foremost China scholars of this century. In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy labeled him "one of the top Communist agents in the country." After years of Senate hearings and appeals, he was exonerated and left the United States to become Professor of Mongolian Studies at the University of Leeds. He died in 1989. DAVID LATTIMORE is Professor of Chinese Studies at Brown University.