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Michael Loewe
鲁惟一Michael Loewe is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning religion and philosophy, history, material culture. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1922—2025United Kingdom
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Michael Loewe specialized in Qin and Han history, studying administration, political thought, mythology, religion, calendrical systems, and excavated texts. He was especially skilled at checking transmitted histories against bamboo and wooden manuscripts, silk manuscripts, and archaeological evidence.
Rather than advancing grand theories of civilization, he sought to establish the evidence for a particular office, institution, or concept within a precise period. He died in 2025 at the age of 102 and was an important link between postwar British sinology and contemporary early-China studies.
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