Michael Loewe

Michael Loewe
Født		2. nov. 1922 Oxford
Død		1. jan. 2025 (102 år)
Beskjeftigelse		Sinolog, historiker, universitetslærer
Akademisk grad		Doktorgrad
Utdannet ved		Magdalen College University of London
Ektefelle(r)		Carmen Blacker
Far		Herbert Loewe
Søsken		Raphael James Loewe
Nasjonalitet		Storbritannia
Medlem av		American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Michael Loewe (1922–2025) var en britisk sinolog og medredaktør og ‑forfatter av The Cambridge History of Ancient China (ISBN 9780521470308), et ledsagende bind som dekker perioden forut for de som behandles i The Cambridge History of China.

Michael Loewe studerte ved The Perse School i Cambridge og deretter Magdalen College i Oxford. Han virket som specialist officer i den britiske regjerings Communications’ Headquarters fra 1942 til 1956, og deretter som dosent i Øst-Asias historie ved University of London. Han ble tilknyttet University of Cambridge i 1963, og ble pensjonist i 1990.

Verker i utvalg

• 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 during 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; 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.
• The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• 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.

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