Lisa Raphals

Lisa Raphals
Born	Lisa Ann Raphals (1951-05-15) May 15, 1951 (age 73)
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Professor of Philosophy
Known for	Comparative studies of early China and ancient Greece
Title	Professor
Spouse	John C. Baez
Academic work
Discipline	Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature, Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Ancient Chinese Studies, Ancient Greek Studies
Institutions	University of California Riverside; National University of Singapore
Main interests	Early China, Ancient Greece, Comparative Philosophy

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.

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

Selected works

• ——— (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

References

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.