Michael Loewe

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Michael Loewe, 2005

Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe (born November 2, 1922 in Oxford ) is a British sinologist .

Life

Michael Loewe attended Perse School in Cambridge and Magdalen College at Oxford University . In 1942 he left Oxford to work for the British Secret Service at Government Communications Headquarters as an expert on Japanese affairs , but continued to study classical Chinese in his spare time .

The London School of Oriental and African Studies awarded him a First Class Honors Degree in 1951, and in 1956 he left government service to teach as a lecturer in East Asian history at the University of London . He received his doctorate from Oxford in 1963. He later taught at the University of Cambridge until he retired from this position in 1990 to devote himself entirely to his studies. He is a Fellow of Clare Hall .

The bibliographical guide published by him early Chinese texts ( Early Chinese texts ) is the best western entry into the topic of ancient Chinese texts have contributed to the Han period, attended by leading experts.

Together with Edward L. Shaughnessy , he edited the volume of the Cambridge History of Ancient China , which covers the vast period of the origins of Chinese civilization up to the year 221.

In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • Michael Loewe (Ed.): Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide. Berkeley, California: The Society for the Study of Early China & the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 (Early China special monograph series; no. 2), ISBN 1-55729-043-1 ( online )
  • Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy: The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC.
  • Imperial China: the Historical background to the Modern Age. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966.
  • Records of Han Administration; volume I: Historical Assessment; volume II: Documents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967; reprinted London: Routledge Shorton, 2002.
  • Everyday Life in Early Imperial China during the Han Period. London: BT Batsford, 1968; reprinted New York: Dorset Press, 1988; Hackett Publishing Company, Mass. 2005.
  • Crisis and Conflict in Han China. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1974 ISBN 0-415-36161-3 ; reprinted London: Routledge, 2005.
  • Ancient Cosmologies. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975.
  • Ways to Paradise: the Chinese Quest for Immortality. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1979; reprinted Taipei: SMC, 1994.
  • Divination and oracles. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
  • Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982; reprinted Taipei: SMC, 1994; Hackett Publishing Company, Mass. 2005; Chinese translation 1991; Korean translation 1992.
  • The Cambridge History of China: volume I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; Chinese translations: Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan, 1992; Taipei: Nan-t'ien shu-chü, 196.
  • The Pride that was China. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1990.
  • Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1993; Chinese translation: Shenyang: Liaoning chubanshe, 1997.
  • Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45466-2
  • The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-47030-7
  • A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Han and Xin Dynasties. Leiden: EJBrill, 2000.
  • The Men who Governed China in Han Times. Leiden: EJBrill, 2004.
  • Supplementary Volume to the Cambridge History of China: volume I (in progress).

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personal data
SURNAME Loewe, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loewe, Michael Arthur Nathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford