User:Dpr/Mair
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Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. Professor Mair has edited the standard Columbia History of Chinese Literature and the Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature.
Dr. Mair received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. Dr. Mair is also founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers, an academic journal examining Chinese, East Asian and Central Asian linguistics and literature.
Dr. Mair specializes in early vernacular Chinese, and is responsible for a well-received translation of the Dao De Jing. He has also been noted for his collaboration on interdisciplinary research on the archeology of Eastern Central Asia.
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