Michael Nylan

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Michael Nylan
Born1950 (age 7374)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (B.A.)
University at Buffalo (M.A.)
Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsEarly Chinese History
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Chinese name
Chinese 戴梅可

Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather Chair of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She writes about history, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology of early imperial China. [1]

Nylan was born in 1950 and named after Saint Michael by her mother, thankful for a successful birth after a series of miscarriages. [2] After undergraduate and masters study in history, she studied Classical Chinese with Michael Loewe and fell in love with the subject. Her doctoral work an Princeton University was in history and archaeology. [3] She was one of the first American scholars in China after the opening in the 1970s, but her stay at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was unsuccessful, due to her male colleagues' refusal to take a woman on excavations. [2] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. [4]

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References

  1. "Michael Nylan". Berkeley Department of History.
  2. 1 2 Varadarajan, Tunku (April 1, 2020). "Sun Tzu and the Coronavirus". defining ideas. Hoover Institution.
  3. Qian, Ying (December 10, 2013). "In Conversation with Michael Nylan". The China Story. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014.
  4. "Michael Nylan". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.