Michael Loewe

Michael Loewe ( born November 2, 1922 in Oxford) is one of the most important contemporary sinologist.

Loewe attended the Perse School in Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford University. In 1942 he left Oxford to work for British intelligence in the Government Communications Headquarters as an expert on Japanese affairs, dealt in his spare time but continue with classical Chinese.

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

The out by him in bibliographic guide Early Chinese texts ( Early Chinese texts) is the best western entry to the topic of ancient Chinese texts to the Han period, who worked on the leading experts.

Along with Edward L. Shaughnessy, he edited the volume of the Cambridge History of Ancient China, which deals with the enormous period of the origins of Chinese civilization to the year 221.

Major works

  • Michael Loewe (ed.): Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide. Berkeley, California: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 ( Early China special monograph series; no.2 ), ISBN 1-55729-043-1

Works

  • 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: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
  • Everyday Life in Early Imperial China falling on the Han Period. London: B.T. 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 in 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 chu, 196
  • The Pride did what 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: E.J.Brill, 2000.
  • The Men who Governed China in Han Times. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 2004.
  • Supplementary volume to the Cambridge History of China: volume I ( in progress).
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