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Name
  
Lisa Raphals


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Author

Books
  
Knowing words, Sharing the light, Divination and Predictio, What country

Conference: East of West, West of East - Lisa Raphals


Lisa Raphals (born 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at University of California, Riverside, and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. 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 translation entitled What Country.

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Raphals is married to John Baez, who is a professor of mathematical physics and mathematics at UCR.

Published works

  • Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece, Cornell University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0801426193
  • Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China, SUNY Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0791438558
  • What Country, North and South, 1994. ISBN 978-1870314251
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