Michael Loewe
Michael Loewe | |
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SOAS, University of London (BA, PhD) | |
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| Relatives | Cambridge University |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Lǔ Wéiyī |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Luu Weii |
| Wade–Giles | Lu3 Wei2-i1 |
Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe (born 2 November 1922) is a British
sinologist, historian, and writer who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancient
and early Imperial China.
Life and career
Loewe was born on 2 November 1922 in
Hebrew and Jewish studies at University College London. Loewe was married to Carmen Blacker, a scholar of the Japanese language
.
Loewe attended secondary school at
Edsin Gol, and his study became his book "Records of Han Administration" later.[5][6] SOAS awarded him a Ph.D. in 1963, and he subsequently joined the faculty at Cambridge, where he taught until retiring in 1990 to focus solely on research and scholarship. He is a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge
.
Honours
- Royal Asiatic Society, member.
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary member.
A unique award in Loewe's honour exists at Cambridge: the "Michael Loewe Prize" may be awarded annually to one or more undergraduate candidates who have achieved distinction in literary Chinese.[7]
Selected works
- Loewe, Michael (1959). "Some Han-time Documents from Chü-yen". JSTOR 4528102.
- ——— (1966). Imperial China: The Historical Background to the Modern Age. London: George Allen and Unwin.
- ——— (1967). Records of Han Administration (2 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ——— (1968). Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period. London: B.T. Batsford. Reprinted (1988), New York: Dorset Press.
- ——— (1974). Crisis and Conflict in Han China. London: George Allen and Unwin.
- ——— (1977). "Manuscripts Found Recently in China: A Preliminary Survey". T'oung Pao. 63 (2/3): 99–136. JSTOR 4528102.
- ——— (1979). Ways to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for Immortality. London: George Allen and Unwin.
- ——— (1982). Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period. London: George Allen and Unwin.
- Loewe, Michael; Twitchett, Denis, eds. (1986). The Cambridge History of China, vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ——— (1990). The Pride that was China. London: Sidgwick and Jackson.
- Loewe, Michael, ed. (1993). Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China; Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley.
- ——— (1994). Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ———; Shaughnessy, Edward, eds. (1999). The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ——— (2000). A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Han and Xin Dynasties. Leiden: Brill.
- ——— (2004). The Men who Governed China in Han Times. Leiden: Brill.
- ——— (2011). Dong Zhongshu, a "Confucian" heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu. Leiden: Brill.
References
- ISBN 1857431790.
- ^ Peter Kornicki, Captain Oswald Tuck and the Bedford Japanese School, 1942-1945 (London: Pollino Publishing, 2019). See also Michael Loewe, 'Japanese naval codes', in F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, eds, Codebreakers: the Inside Story of Bletchley Park (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 257-63.
- ^ a b Three Questions to Michael Loewe
- ^ https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1058039%7CCatalogue
- ^ A photo of this reading circle was carried on Momiyama(2014). Akira Momiyama, 2014, History of studies about wooden slips from Edsin Gol in Japan, The borderline of studies between historical texts and unearthed artifacts, volume 2, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
- ^ google book
- ^ Cambridge University, Department East Asian Studies: Chinese, undergraduate studies.
- Works cited
- Biography of Michel Loewe, Cambridge University.
External links
- Michael Loewe Scholarship Fund, Cambridge University.
- Roel Sterckx interviews Michael Loewe, for Conversations .
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