Luo Ergang

{{short description|Chinese historian and researcher}}

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|birth_date= {{birth date|1901|1|29}}

|birth_place= Guigang, Guangxi

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|death_date= {{death date and age|1997|5|25|1901|1|29}}

|death_place= Beijing, China

|party=Chinese Communist Party{{cite book|author1=Liao Gelong|author2=Luo Zhupeng|author3=Fan Yuan|title=Chinese Dictionary of Personal Names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3BEVAQAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House}}

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Luo Ergang ({{zh|t=羅爾綱|s=罗尔纲}}; January 29, 1901{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFQQAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Encyclopedia of China Publishing House}} – May 25, 1997{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com.cn/GB/historic/0525/1711.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040603002904/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/historic/0525/1711.html|title=May 25, 1997 Famous historian Luo Erzang passed away|url-status=dead|accessdate=30 March 2021|archive-date=2004-06-03|work=People's Daily}}), also known as Elgan Lo and Lo Erh-kang,{{cite book|author=John King Fairbank|title=The Cambridge History of the Late Qing Dynasty in China, 1800-1911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVKEAAAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=China Social Sciences Press|isbn=978-7-5004-0766-9}} was a historian{{cite book|author=Zhihong Shi|title=Agricultural Development in Qing China: A Quantitative Study, 1661-1911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jE9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174|date=20 October 2017|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-35524-8|pages=174–}} and researcher at the Institute of Modern History of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院近代史研究所).{{cite web |url=http://www.nlc.cn/newhxjy/wjsy/wjls/wjqcsy/wjd2q/201011/P020101123491831675200.pdf|title=Luo Ergang and the manuscript of "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom"|author=|date=2010-11-23|work=National Library of China}} He was an authority on the Taiping Rebellion{{cite book|author=Huaiyin Li|title=Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1gEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|date=31 October 2012|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3726-6|pages=151–}} from a left-wing perspective.