Lisa Ann Raphals (born May 15, 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside (UCR),[1][2] and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore.[3] She compares early China and ancient Greece. She is the author of a number of books, including Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece and Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China, as well as a collection of poems and translations entitled What Country.

Lisa Raphals
Born
Lisa Ann Raphals

(1951-05-15) May 15, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Professor of Philosophy
Known forComparative studies of early China and ancient Greece
TitleProfessor
SpouseJohn C. Baez
Academic work
DisciplineChinese Literature, Comparative Literature, Philosophy
Sub-disciplineAncient Chinese Studies, Ancient Greek Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of California
Riverside; National University of Singapore
Main interestsEarly China, Ancient Greece, Comparative Philosophy

Raphals is married to John C. Baez, who is a professor of mathematics at UCR.[4]

Selected works

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  • ——— (1992). Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801426193.
  • ——— (1994). What Country. North and South. ISBN 978-1870314244.
  • ——— (1998). Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0585059457.
  • ——— (2013). Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107010758.
  • ———; Poo, Mu-chou; Drake, Harold Allen (2017). Old Society, New Belief: Religious Transformation of China and Rome, Ca. 1st-6th Centuries. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190278373. OCLC 951754430.
  • * ——— (Winter 2020), "Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Medicine", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

References

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  1. ^ Lisa Raphals (UCR faculty page) Archived 2010-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Lisa Raphals (UCR homepage)". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
  3. ^ "Lisa Raphals (NUS faculty page)". Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
  4. ^ "February 17, 2007 - Lisa Raphals and I got married today! (Diary - February 2007)". Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2012.