Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe (2 November 1922 – 1 January 2025) was a British historian, Sinologist, and writer who authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancient and early Imperial China.

[1] His great-grandfather Louis Loewe (1809–1888) was a Prussian Silesian professor of Oriental studies and theology who served as the personal secretary of the British Jewish businessman, financier, and philanthropist Moses Montefiore.

[3] He received a first class honours degree in Chinese in 1951, and in 1956 he left the government to serve as a Lecturer in the History of the Far East at the University of London.

On his way from the UK to Kyoto, he purchased the Documents of the Han dynasty on wooden slips from Edsin Gol at Taipei, and started research about it.

Shikazo Mori and he organized a reading circle of the wooden slips from Edsin Gol, and his study became his book Records of Han Administration later.