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 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.

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

References

1. Lisa Raphals (UCR faculty page)
2. Lisa Raphals (UCR homepage)
3. Lisa Raphals (NUS faculty page)
4. February 17, 2007 - Lisa Raphals and I got married today! (Diary - February 2007)