The Men Who Governed Han China
Companion to a Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods
Biographical note
Michael Loewe, Ph.D. (London 1963) was University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Cambridge (1963-90). His publications draw on literary and archaeological evidence and concern institutional, textual and intellectual aspects of the history of early imperial China.
Readership
Scholars and students of political, social and intellectual history of early imperial China.
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