{"title":"Michael Loewe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the world of ancient China with Michael Loewe, a renowned historian. Explore the intricate tapestry of Han Dynasty life, beliefs, and governance through his insightful works. A captivating journey awaits!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pride-that-was-china-book-michael-loewe-9780283996481","title":"The Pride That Was China","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519534309649,"sku":"GOR001899752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50684040249617,"sku":"GOR002980825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52329516499217,"sku":"GOR009437331","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/028399648X.jpg?v=1750973908"},{"product_id":"government-of-the-qin-and-han-empires-book-michael-loewe-9780872208186","title":"The Government of the Qin and Han Empires","description":"Provides an overview of the government of the early empires of China. This work discusses topics such as: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; and, problems and weaknesses.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555553026321,"sku":"GOR005872442","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50152487321873,"sku":"CIN0872208184G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53436977611025,"sku":"GOR014920236","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872208184.jpg?v=1768561787"},{"product_id":"bing-from-farmer-s-son-to-magistrate-in-han-china-book-michael-loewe-9781603846226","title":"Bing: From Farmer's Son to Magistrate in Han China","description":"Depicts the imagined life of an ordinary person, Bing Wu, from the hardships of his earliest years on a rural farm to his retirement from a respected position in government service.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49564073492753,"sku":"CIN1603846220G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50304197853457,"sku":"CIN1603846220A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50521553699089,"sku":"GOR013983990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107105960209,"sku":"CIN1603846220VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1603846220.jpg?v=1766138883"},{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-early-imperial-china-book-michael-loewe-9780872207585","title":"Everyday Life in Early Imperial China","description":"In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of institutions and civil servants that sustained the vast imperial government. In a new Preface and an updated Bibliography, Loewe calls our attention to the significance of scholarly research and discoveries since the original publication of his classic work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730455273745,"sku":"NGR9780872207585","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371152838929,"sku":"CIN0872207587G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326978752785,"sku":"CIN0872207587VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872207587.jpg?v=1776939648"},{"product_id":"crisis-and-conflict-in-han-china-book-michael-loewe-9780049510210","title":"Crisis and Conflict in Han China","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50021792481553,"sku":"CIN0049510215G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51075896246545,"sku":"GOR009829825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0049510215.jpg?v=1751355403"},{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-early-imperial-china-rare-book-michael-loewe-1658494922iev","title":"Everyday Life In Early Imperial China","description":"1968. First Edition. 208 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50078035804433,"sku":"1658494922IEV","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1658494922IEV_1.jpg?v=1722896414"},{"product_id":"faith-myth-and-reason-in-han-china-book-michael-loewe-9780872207561","title":"Faith, Myth, and Reason in Han China","description":"In his classic study of the cultural history of Han China, Michael Loewe uses both archaeological discoveries and written records to sketch the conceptual background of various artifacts of the Han period, and shows how ancient Chinese thought is as much informed by mythology as it is dependent on reason.  Originally published as Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (202 BC-AD 220), this edition includes a new Preface that discusses relevant discoveries made since the first publication and an updated list of other works on relevant topics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50129082319121,"sku":"CIN0872207560VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371150348561,"sku":"CIN0872207560G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51853315178769,"sku":"GOR004328348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B007CZM8JW.jpg?v=1772708211"},{"product_id":"cambridge-history-of-ancient-china-book-michael-loewe-9780521470308","title":"The Cambridge History of Ancient China","description":"The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeological evidence. There are also chapters on the Neolithic background, language, intellectual history, relations with Central Asia, and the debts of both the Qin and Han empires to these earlier time-periods. Although written by specialists, this Cambridge history aims to explain and describe pre-imperial China to an audience that will include scholars and students, as well as general readers without specialized knowledge of Chinese history. It can be consulted as a work of reference, or read continuously, alone or as part of The Cambridge History of China series.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50220376195345,"sku":"CIN0521470307G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003121991953,"sku":"NIN9780521470308","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52397523992849,"sku":"GOR012142784","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52672023953681,"sku":"NLS9780521470308","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0521470307.jpg?v=1750814664"},{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-early-imperial-china-book-michael-loewe-9780872207592","title":"Everyday Life in Early Imperial China","description":"In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of institutions and civil servants that sustained the vast imperial government. In a new Preface and an updated Bibliography, Loewe calls our attention to the significance of scholarly research and discoveries since the original publication of his classic work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371155689745,"sku":"CIN0872207595G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872207595.jpg?v=1751202195"},{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-early-imperial-china-during-the-han-period-202-b-c-a-d-220-book-michael-loewe-9780880291774","title":"Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period, 202 B.C.-A.D.220","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50430838636817,"sku":"CIN088029177XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50771209847057,"sku":"GOR004347937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416586846481,"sku":"CIN088029177XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/088029177X.jpg?v=1751202417"},{"product_id":"crisis-and-conflict-in-han-china-104-bc-to-ad-9-book-michael-loewe-9781138316591","title":"Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9","description":"This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change. The struggle between Reformists and Modernists is analysed using texts contemporary to the time, and this struggle was a key point in Chinese history, leading as it did to enormous change, including to economics and foreign policy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51224920260881,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51224922489105,"sku":"NIN9781138316591","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52333040075025,"sku":"NLS9781138316591","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1138316598.jpg?v=1750854688"},{"product_id":"imperial-institutions-in-ancient-rome-and-early-china-book-michael-loewe-9781350445123","title":"Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China","description":"Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China. Approaching the historical material with a comparative perspective, Loewe examines the strengths and weaknesses, and the successes and failures, which can be seen in the organisation and government of these two political systems. Though each empire was largely ignorant of the other, the problems they faced were similar, given the rudimentary transportation and communication facilities of the time, the high mortality rates and the low levels of literacy. Yet each empire ruled its people in distinctly different ways, with the Roman empire governed largely by military officials, in contrast to the Chinese empire, whose administration was well stocked with roughly 130,000 highly trained professionals.   The ten chapters of this book set out to compare the ways that these two contemporary regimes, similar in size and population, sought to control human activities and impose a set of regulated discipline over those who were ruled. Each chapter concerns the degrees and methods of forming a united people; the assumptions that lay behind such attempts; the reliance that imperial authority placed on religious practices; legal impositions and the structure of institutions; and the bases of social cohesion and economic co-operation. The result is an engaging study of two remarkable empires, whose rise and fall are contrasted in a way that deepens our understanding of empire and civilisation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51629209288977,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51629209518353,"sku":"NGR9781350445123","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52573217194257,"sku":"NIN9781350445123","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52631482532113,"sku":"GOR014570831","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350445126.jpg?v=1750920941"},{"product_id":"imperial-institutions-in-ancient-rome-and-early-china-book-michael-loewe-9781350445116","title":"Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China","description":"Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China. Approaching the historical material with a comparative perspective, Loewe examines the strengths and weaknesses, and the successes and failures, which can be seen in the organisation and government of these two political systems. Though each empire was largely ignorant of the other, the problems they faced were similar, given the rudimentary transportation and communication facilities of the time, the high mortality rates and the low levels of literacy. Yet each empire ruled its people in distinctly different ways, with the Roman empire governed largely by military officials, in contrast to the Chinese empire, whose administration was well stocked with roughly 130,000 highly trained professionals.   The ten chapters of this book set out to compare the ways that these two contemporary regimes, similar in size and population, sought to control human activities and impose a set of regulated discipline over those who were ruled. Each chapter concerns the degrees and methods of forming a united people; the assumptions that lay behind such attempts; the reliance that imperial authority placed on religious practices; legal impositions and the structure of institutions; and the bases of social cohesion and economic co-operation. The result is an engaging study of two remarkable empires, whose rise and fall are contrasted in a way that deepens our understanding of empire and civilisation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51632211951889,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51632212279569,"sku":"NGR9781350445116","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52682631741713,"sku":"NLS9781350445116","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350445118.jpg?v=1750857221"},{"product_id":"divination-mythology-and-monarchy-in-han-china-book-michael-loewe-9780521052207","title":"Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China","description":"Chinese empires were established by force of arms, but sustained by religious rites and intellectual theory. The four centuries from 206 BC to AD 220 witnessed major changes in the state cults and the concepts of monarchy, while various techniques of divination were used to forecast the future or to solve immediate problems. Michael Loewe examines these changes and the links between religion and statecraft. While both mythology and the traditions nurtured by the learned affected the concept and practice of monarchy throughout the period, the political and social weaknesses of the last century of Han rule bring into question the success that was achieved by the imperial ideal. Nevertheless, that ideal and its institutions were of prime importance for the understanding of Han times and for the influence they exercised on China's later dynasties.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52123303444753,"sku":"NLS9780521052207","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521052207.jpg?v=1757448931"},{"product_id":"divination-mythology-and-monarchy-in-han-china-book-michael-loewe-9780521454667","title":"Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China","description":"Chinese empires were established by force of arms, but sustained by religious rites and intellectual theory. The four centuries from 206 BC to AD 220 witnessed major changes in the state cults and the concepts of monarchy, while various techniques of divination were used to forecast the future or to solve immediate problems. Michael Loewe examines these changes and the links between religion and statecraft. While both mythology and the traditions nurtured by the learned affected the concept and practice of monarchy throughout the period, the political and social weaknesses of the last century of Han rule bring into question the success that was achieved by the imperial ideal. Nevertheless, that ideal and its institutions were of prime importance for the understanding of Han times and for the influence they exercised on China's later dynasties.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52333504626961,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52333505282321,"sku":"NLS9780521454667","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521454667.jpg?v=1758154992"},{"product_id":"crisis-and-conflict-in-han-china-104-bc-to-ad-9-book-michael-loewe-9781138316584","title":"Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9","description":"This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change. The struggle between Reformists and Modernists is analysed using texts contemporary to the time, and this struggle was a key point in Chinese history, leading as it did to enormous change, including to economics and foreign policy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52402637832465,"sku":"NLS9781138316584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53082571407633,"sku":"NIN9781138316584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781138316584.jpg?v=1758758383"},{"product_id":"imperial-china-book-michael-loewe-9781032151441","title":"Imperial China","description":"First published in 1966, Imperial China sets out to explain China’s past histories to non-specialists. Too often the West has misunderstood the East. China is credited with an excessively long cultural history; with a continuous line of dynastic succession; with uniformly practised institutions; or with intellectual stagnation. Michael Loewe sets out here to dispel some of these misconceptions, and to mark the stages in the evolution of China’s political forms, social organizations and economic progress that can be traced from the days of the first empire (from 221 B.C.) until the dynamic changes of the nineteenth century. He believes that a full understanding of modern China depends on a more than perfunctory glance at her past and has tried to provide the general historical context. The author is well aware that, thanks to the research of the last fifty years, it is now possible and indeed requisite to reach a deeper understanding of China's past. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese history, Asian history, history in general.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52589589922065,"sku":"NLS9781032151441","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032151441.jpg?v=1761060366"},{"product_id":"problems-of-han-administration-book-michael-loewe-9789004314887","title":"Problems of Han Administration","description":"Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China's early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor's predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical terms, tax collectors, merchants, farmers and townsmen required the establishment of a standard set of weights and measures that was universally operative and which they could trust. Those who saw reason to criticise the decisions taken by the emperor and his immediate advisors, whether on grounds of moral principles or political expediency, needed opportunities and the means of expressing their views, whether as remonstrants to the throne, by withdrawal from public life or as authors of private writings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52593828364561,"sku":"NLS9789004314887","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004314887.jpg?v=1768561171"},{"product_id":"ways-to-paradise-book-michael-loewe-9781032268347","title":"Ways to Paradise","description":"First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter. Dr Loewe examines in particular three major subjects of Han art and iconography: a recently found silk painting from Central China dating from around 168 BC; the numerous bronze mirrors of the so-called TLV pattern that came into fashion at the beginning of the Christian era, and which are especially rich in cosmological symbolism; and the representations of the Queen Mother of the West which appear as a leading motif of Chinese art from perhaps a century later. These Dr Loewe sets within a framework of contemporary literature and historical incident to create a wonderfully vivid picture of religious life and thought in this early and fascinating period of Chinese history which was to contribute so much to later developments in Far Eastern Philosophy, religion and art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52594036572433,"sku":"NLS9781032268347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53518610628881,"sku":"NIN9781032268347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032268347.jpg?v=1761068724"},{"product_id":"dong-zhongshu-a-confucian-heritage-and-the-chunqiu-fanlu-book-michael-loewe-9789004194656","title":"Dong Zhongshu, a 'Confucian' Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu","description":"The assumption that a system described as 'Confucianism' formulated by Dong Zhongshu became accepted as the norm during the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE - 9 CE) is challenged and his supposed authorship of the Chunqiu fanlu examined.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52694731358481,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52694732046609,"sku":"NLS9789004194656","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004194656.jpg?v=1778320262"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-michael-loewe.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}