Lisa Raphals
Lisa Raphals (born 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at University of California, Riverside,[1][2] and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore.[3] She is one of a small number of scholars who specializes in the comparison of early China and ancient Greece. She is the author of a number of scholarly 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.
Raphals is married to John Baez, who is a professor of mathematical physics and mathematics at UCR.[4]
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