Michael Nylan

Michael Nylan
Born	1950 (age 73–74)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley(B.A.) University at Buffalo(M.A.) Princeton University(Ph.D.)
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Early Chinese History
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Chinese name
Chinese	Mang mai nhưng
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dài Méikě

Michael Nylanis theJane K. SatherChair of History at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. She writes about history, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology of early imperial China.

Nylan was born in 1950 and named afterSaint Michaelby her mother, thankful for a successful birth after a series of miscarriages. After undergraduate and masters study in history, she studiedClassical ChinesewithMichael Loeweand fell in love with the subject. Her doctoral work anPrinceton Universitywas in history and archaeology. 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 theChinese Academy of Social Scienceswas unsuccessful, due to her male colleagues' refusal to take a woman on excavations. She was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowshipin 2014.

Selected works

• Ying Shao'sFeng su t'ung yi:An Exploration of Problems in Han Dynasty Political, Philosophical, and Social Unity(Ph.D thesis), Princeton University, 1983.
• The Five "Confucian" Classics,Yale University Press, 2001,ISBN978-0-300-08185-5.
• The Chinese Pleasure Book,Princeton University Press, 2018,ISBN978-1-942130-13-0.