Michael Nylan

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...

Environmental Equity in China and Beyond by Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn opens up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice. Nylan’s analysis of lesser-known texts from ancient China changes our thinking of...