Victor H. Mair (born 1943) is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Chinese literature extends back thousands of years from the earliest recorded dynastic court Archives to the mature fictional Novel that arose during the Ming Dynasty The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The United States of America —commonly referred to as the 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. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Dr. Mair is also founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers, an academic journal examining Chinese, East Asian and Central Asian linguistics and literature. Sino-Platonic Papers ( SPP) is a scholarly monograph series edited by Victor H An academic journal is a peer-reviewed Periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular Academic discipline is published
Dr. Mair specializes in early vernacular Chinese, and is responsible for translations of the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi. Vernacular Chinese is a style or register of the Written Chinese Language essentially modeled after the spoken language and associated with The Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing ( originally known as Laozi or Lao tzu ( is a Chinese classic For the book with the same name see Zhuangzi (book Zhuangzi ( was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th He has also collaborated on interdisciplinary research on the archeology of Eastern Central Asia. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south The American Philosophical Society awarded him membership in 2007. The American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin as an offshoot of his earlier club the Junto.
Three of Mair's former students characterize his wide-ranging scholarship.
Victor has always cast his nets widely, and he could routinely amaze us with observations far afield from the Chinese text we were reading in class. Today people often attempt to simulate this cosmopolitanism under the rubric of interdisciplinary study, but for Victor, it was quite untrendy: he simply had an insatiable appetite for knowledge and pushing boundaries. Indeed, border-crossing has been our mentor's dominant mode of scholarship, a mode that has constantly interrogated where those very borders are both geographically and categorically. Though never sporting fashionable jargon, Victor has always taken on phenomena and issues that engage aspects of multiculturalism, hybridity, alterity, and the subaltern, while remarkably grounding his work in painstaking philological analysis. Victor demonstrates the success of philology, often dismissed as a nineteenth-century holdover, for investigating twenty-first-century concerns. (Boucher, Schmid, and Sen 2006:1)
References
- Boucher, Daniel, Neil Schmid, and Tansen Sen. 2006. "The Scholarly Contributions of Professor Victor H. Mair", Asia Major 3. 6:1-12.
Works written or edited by Victor H. Mair
- Sino-Platonic Papers
- danger + opportunity ≠ crisis -- an essay by Mair debunking a common saying about Chinese characters
- The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. The Tarim mummies are a series of Caucasoid Mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from J. P. Mallory and Victor H. James Patrick Mallory is an Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mair (2000). Thames & Hudson. London. ISBN 0-500-05101-1
External links
- Official homepage
- Works by or about Victor H. Mair in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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