Professor Victor H Mair
Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and an MPhil from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Professor Mair is the general editor of the Cambria World Sinophone Series, as well as the editor of Sino-Platonic Papers and of the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series at the University of Hawaii Press. He is the coauthor of Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of...See more
Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and an MPhil from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Professor Mair is the general editor of the Cambria World Sinophone Series, as well as the editor of Sino-Platonic Papers and of the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series at the University of Hawaii Press. He is the coauthor of Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia and The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (2000), the author of The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods (2007), and the editor of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature (2001). See less
Professor Victor H Mair's Featured Books
Professor Victor H Mair book reviews
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Wandering on the Way
Excellent Translation of the Chuang Tzu
by JohnL, Jun 23, 2009
This book is a complete translation of the Chuang Tzu (The Book of Master Chuang), a foundational text of Daoism alongside the Tao Te Ching.
In contrast to the gnomic and concise Tao Te Ching, ... Read More
