Victor H. Mair | Academic Influence

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Victor H. Mair

Victor H. Mair is affiliated with the following schools: SOAS University of London, Dartmouth College, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University

Victor H. Mair's Degrees

Masters Chinese University of Washington
Bachelors Chinese University of Washington

Why Is Victor H. Mair Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Victor Henry Mair is an American sinologist. He is a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania. Among other accomplishments, Mair has edited the standard Columbia History of Chinese Literature and the Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. Mair is the series editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series , and his book coauthored with Miriam Robbins Dexter , Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia, won the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology.

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Victor H. Mair's Published Works

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Published Works

The prehistory of the Silk Road (2007) (182)
Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization (2017) (141)
Wandering on the way : early Taoist tales and parables of Chuang Tzu (1998) (136)
The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (2000) (122)
Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age (2010) (111)
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature (2002) (88)
Buddhism and the Rise of the Written Vernacular in East Asia: The Making of National Languages (1994) (72)
The Columbia anthology of traditional Chinese literature (1997) (57)
Experimental essays on Chuang-tzu / (1985) (53)
A western Eurasian male is found in 2000-year-old elite Xiongnu cemetery in Northeast Mongolia. (2010) (51)
Contact and exchange in the ancient world (2006) (49)
The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia: Volume II: Genetics and Physical Anthropology, Metallurgy, Textiles, Geography and Climatology, History, and Mythology and Ethnology (1999) (48)
Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis (1989) (46)
The Korean Buddhist canon : a descriptive catalogue (1979) (46)
Lao-Tzu: Te-Tao Ching: A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-wang tui Texts (2010) (44)
T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China (1992) (44)
Tun-Huang Popular Narratives (1986) (43)
Understanding Di and Tian : Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties (2000) (39)
Understanding Di and Tian : Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties (2000) (39)
Old Sinitic *Mᵞag, Old Persian Maguš, and English “Magician” (1990) (38)
What is Geyi, After All?* (2012) (32)
The True History of Tea (2009) (31)
The art of war : Sun Zi's military methods (2007) (26)
Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way: A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-Wang-Tui Manuscripts (1993) (26)
Molecular genetic analysis of remains from Lamadong cemetery, Liaoning, China. (2007) (19)
The Rediscovery and Complete Excavation of Ördek's Necropolis (2006) (18)
ELEVEN. Language and Ideology in the Written Popularizations of the Sacred Edict (1985) (17)
Mummies of the Tarim Basin (1995) (17)
Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity (2014) (16)
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of human remains from the Yuansha site in Xinjiang, China (2008) (16)
The shorter Columbia anthology of traditional Chinese literature (2000) (15)
‘To Translate’ is (To Exchange’ 譯者言易也 — Linguistic Diversity and the Terms for Translation in Ancient China (2004) (15)
The Narrative Revolution in Chinese Literature: Ontological Presuppositions (1983) (15)
Evidence of Eurasian metal alloys on the Alaskan coast in prehistory (2016) (14)
The Zhuangzi and Its Impact (2000) (13)
Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours (2015) (12)
Religious Formations and Intercultural Contacts in Early China (2011) (12)
Baihua , Guanhua , Fangyan and the May Fourth Reading of Rulin waishi (2011) (12)
Baihua , Guanhua , Fangyan and the May Fourth Reading of Rulin waishi (2011) (12)
Chapter 2. The North (west) ern Peoples and the Recurrent Origins of the “Chinese” State (2004) (10)
Strange tales from Make-do studio (1989) (9)
East Asian Historical Traditions of Well-Being (2017) (9)
T'ang transformation texts (1991) (8)
Notes on the Maudgalyāyana Legend in East Asia (1986) (6)
Early Development of Bronze Metallurgy in Eastern Eurasia (2011) (6)
The Classification of Sinitic Languages : What Is “ Chinese ” ? (2013) (6)
Lay Students and the Kakdlg of Written Verracolar Narrative: an Inventory of Tun-huang Mahuscripts (1981) (6)
Irony Illustrated : A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Situational Irony in China and the United States (2008) (5)
Chapter 3. The Northern Cemetery: Epigone or Progenitor of Small River Cemetery No. 5? (2014) (5)
The Language of Chinese Thought@@@Proces ou Creation: Une introduction a la pensee des lettres chinois (1991) (5)
The Origins of an Iconographical Form of the Pilgrim Hsüan-tsang (1986) (5)
The Columbia anthology of Chinese folk and popular literature (2011) (5)
Hawaiʿi reader in traditional Chinese culture (2005) (5)
Reply to James' O. Caswell's “Sinology or Art History, Pt II—A Response to Victor H. Mair” (1995) (4)
Chapter 1. Transformation as Imagination in Medieval Popular Buddhist Literature (2014) (4)
Southern Bottle-Gourd (hu-lu 葫蘆) Myths in China and Their Appropriation by Taoism (1996) (4)
Painting and Performance (1988) (4)
The mummies of east central asia (2010) (4)
Li Po's Letters in Pursuit of Political Patronage (1984) (4)
The Study of Ancient Human Skeletons from Xinjiang , China (1994) (4)
A reordering of the hexa-grams of the I Ching (1979) (4)
The Precious Scroll On Bodhisattva Guanshiyin from Jingjiang, and Confucian Morality (2014) (3)
Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research (2018) (3)
3. Xie He’s “Six Laws” of Painting and Their Indian Parallels (2017) (3)
Scroll Presentation in The T'ang Dynasty (1978) (3)
A Material Case for a Late Bering Strait Crossing Coincident with Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific Crossings by Jordan Paper (1993) (3)
Records of Transformation Tableaux (Pien-Hsiang) (1986) (3)
Life and Light , the Infinite : A Historical and Philological Analysis of the Amida Cult by Soho (1988) (3)
A Reordering of the Hexagrams of the I Ching (1979) (3)
The Contributions of T ’ ang and Five Dynasties Transformation Texts ( pien-wen ) to Later Chinese Popular Literature (2006) (2)
Reflections on the “ Unity ” of Spoken and Written Chinese and Academic Learning in China (1994) (2)
What is Pien-wen? (1984) (2)
ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings (2017) (2)
On the Date of the Aryan Religion , and the Minoan Religion of the Bull by Catalin Anghelina (2014) (2)
Chinese Classical Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic: Selections from the Third to the Tenth Century (1986) (2)
Traditional China in Asian and World History (2012) (2)
Kinesis versus Stasis , Interaction versus Independent Invention (2007) (2)
Yang Lian’s exilic poetry: ghost poetics and self-dramatization (2021) (2)
Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization (2013) (2)
54. The First Recorded Cinderella Story (2017) (2)
Wandering in and through the Chuang-tzu (1983) (2)
Traces of Buddhist Art in Sogdiana by Matteo Compareti (2008) (2)
The case of the Wayward Oracle Bone (2001) (2)
12 Persian Scribes (munshi) and Chinese Literati (ru) The Power and Prestige of Fine Writing (adab/wenzhang) (2012) (2)
The Qing Opening to the Ocean (2017) (2)
Language And Script; Biology, Archaeology, And (Pre)History (1996) (2)
Genetics and physical anthropology, metallurgy, textiles, geography and climatology, history, and mythology and ethnology (1999) (1)
The Zuozhuan Story about Qi Xi’s Recommendations and Its Sources (2015) (1)
Dao and Brahman : The Phenomenon of Primordial Supreme Unity (2014) (1)
The Origin and Nature of the “ Nineteen Old Poems ” (2013) (1)
Foreword (2020) (1)
The Origin and Nature of the “ Nineteen Old Poems ” (2013) (1)
Stylish Hats and Sumptuous Garments from Bronze Age and Iron Age Eastern Central Asia (2010) (1)
Buddhist Narrative Literature in China (2020) (1)
The Zuozhuan Account of the Death of King Zhao of Chu and Its Sources (2013) (1)
Kirk & Sidwell, eds.: From Neanderthal to Easter Island (2003) (1)
An Anthology Of Chinese Literature Beginnings To 1911 (2022) (1)
Comments on Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels (2011) (1)
聊斋志异选 = Selections from strange tales from the Liaozhai studio (2007) (1)
Encounter with a Tiger Traveling West by Heleanor Feltham (2012) (1)
The Zuozhuan Account of the Death of King Zhao of Chu and Its Sources (2013) (1)
Examining the Connection Between Ancient China and Borneo Through Santubong Archaeological Sites by Wan Kong Ann (2013) (1)
SCRIPT AND WORD IN MEDIEVAL VERNACULAR SINITIC (2016) (1)
From Imperial Metaphor to Rebellious Deities : The History and Modern State of Western Studies of Chinese Popular Religion (2013) (1)
新たに確認された「王陵変文」の一残簡 (2012) (0)
Hakola: 1000 Duraljan etyma (2002) (0)
The Human Side of the Library (2014) (0)
The Forest and the Trees (1991) (0)
Autobiographical Features In Bai Juyi’s "Biography Of The Maestro Of Mellow Versification" (2010) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1990) (0)
Two Non-Tetragraphic Northern Sinitic Languages a . Implications of the Soviet Dungan Script for Chinese Language Reform b . Who Were the Gyámi ? (1990) (0)
69. Ni Zan, Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and Eating (2017) (0)
Associate Editors (1994) (0)
Sacred Edict on the Shelves of Van Pelt (2014) (0)
The Yuezhi: Origins, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria . By Craig G. R. Benjamin. Louvain: Brepols, 2006. xviii, 245 pp. $72.00 (paper). (2008) (0)
Comments on Stefan Zimmer, "Modern Necromancy, or How to Make Mummies Speak" (1998) (0)
ON "TRANSFORMATIONISTS" (BIAN]IA) AND "JUMBLED TRANSFORMATIONS" (LAZA BIAN): TWO NEW SOURCES FOR THE STUDY (2013) (0)
A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State by Taishan (2010) (0)
A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Yu State by Taishan (2010) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Number 121 July , 2002 Dicing and Divination in Early China by Mark (2011) (0)
Peter Francis Kornicki: Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia. xxix, 393 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 19 879782 1. (2019) (0)
Number 134 May , 2004 Two Steps Toward Digraphia in China by Xieyan Hincha (2010) (0)
Anthologizing and anthropologizing : the place of non-elite and non-standard culture in the Chinese literary tradition (1992) (0)
Shih and Zong : Social Organization in Bronze Age China (2010) (0)
Shih and Zong : Social Organization in Bronze Age China (2010) (0)
Book Reviews : Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989), xxiii, 412 pp. Cloth $60.00 (1991) (0)
13. Zhuang Zi (2017) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2011) (0)
Reviews (2003) (0)
57. Guo Xi (attrib.), “Advice on Landscape” (2017) (0)
John DeFrancis The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (1986) (0)
Semino: Language and world creation poems (2002) (0)
Gazing Eastwards: Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957 written by Romila Thapar (2022) (0)
A ginseng tale from Jilin (2011) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
The Book of Good Deeds: (2021) (0)
The Immortality of Words: Hu Shi’s Language Reform and His Reflection on Religion (2020) (0)
Sir Auriel Stein bibliography: 1885-1943 (2002) (0)
Reply to Ben-Ami Scharfstein (1991) (0)
The Complete Text of Śramaṇa Hui's Subcommentary on the Quadripartite Prātimokṣa The Complete Text of Sramana Hui's Subcommentary on the Quadripartite Pratimoksa (1984) (0)
A dictionary of Japanese loanwords (2002) (0)
Four Introspective Poets: A Concordance to Selected Poems by Roan Jvi, Chern Tzyy-arng, Jang Jeouling, and Lii Bor (1988) (0)
Literary Evidence for the Identification of Some Common Scenes in Han Funerary Art (2005) (0)
Anthology of Tang and Song Tales (2020) (0)
Between the Eyes and the Ears: Ethnic Perspective on the Development of Philological Traditions, First Millennium AD (2020) (0)
Sound and Sense in the Study of Chinese Popular Culture (1990) (0)
The Tumshequese Karmavācanā Text@@@The Tumshequese Karmavacana Text (1986) (0)
90. Kang Youwei, “An Investigation into the Reforms of Confucius” (2017) (0)
Introduction: Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention (2017) (0)
Archeology, migration and nomadism, linguistics (1998) (0)
Book Review:Wandering at Ease in the "Zhuangzi" Roger T. Ames (2000) (0)
Abstracts (1990) (0)
A Newly Identified Fragment of the “Transformation on Wang Ling” (2020) (0)
Academician Boris L'Vovich Riftin (1932–2012): the Extraordinary Life of a Brilliant Scholar (2012) (0)
John Kieschnick , The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture :The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture (2006) (0)
Paradoxical Coexistence of Prognostication and Warfare (2013) (0)
Paradoxical Coexistence of Prognostication and Warfare (2013) (0)
Two Cross-Cultural Studies on Reading Theory a . Cross-orthographic Stroop Research : One Study in Context b . The Composing Process of a Bilingual Novice Writer (1990) (0)
56. Political and Economic Problems concerning Buddhism (2017) (0)
Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin . By John Blofeld. Boulder: Shambhala, 1978. 158 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Glossary. $3.95. (1979) (0)
The Flood Myths of Early ChinaBy Mark Edward Lewis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. vii+248. $25.95 (paper). (2009) (0)
Sino-platonic Papers Reviews (i) by Various Authors Sino-platonic Papers Is an Occasional Series Edited (1988) (0)
The and Its Impact (2000) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1991) (0)
The Buddhist Tradition of Prosimetric Oral Narrative in Chinese Literature (1988) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
An Alphabetical Index To The Hanyu Da Cidian (2006) (0)
Zhou Youguang周有光: (January 13,1906 -- January 14, 2017) (2017) (0)
Sinological Studies Dedicated to Edward H. Schafer (1987) (0)
The Complete Text of Śramaṇa Hui's Subcommentary on the Quadripartite Prātimokṣa (Ssu-fen chieh-pen shu)@@@The Complete Text of Sramana Hui's Subcommentary on the Quadripartite Pratimoksa (Ssu-fen chieh-pen shu) (1984) (0)
Parallels Between Some Tun-huang Manuscripts and the 17th Chapter of the Kōzanji Journey to the West (1987) (0)
Neef et al., eds.: The relation of writing to spoken language (2005) (0)
Ancient mummies of the Tarim Basin: Discovering Early Inhabitants of Eastern Central Asia (2016) (0)
The cultures of ancient Xinjiang, Western China: crossroads of the silk roads (2020) (0)
The Earliest Tocharians in China by YU Taishan (2010) (0)
From the Editor (2011) (0)
91. Lu Xun, An Outsider’s Chats about Written Language (2017) (0)
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS FOUNDED 1986 (1998) (0)
Whose Ancestors Are They (2009) (0)
Folklore and Popular Culture (2014) (0)
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History. By James A. Benn. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. Pp. 304. $65.00.) (2017) (0)
EAC volume 23-24 Cover and Front matter (1998) (0)
19. Early Discussions of Music and Literature (2017) (0)
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. By John Kieschnick. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. ix+343. $72.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2006) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS Number 142 July , 2004 Silk Road Exchange in China by Katheryn Linduff (2014) (0)
82. Fang Yizhi, Introduction to Notes on the Principle of Things (2017) (0)
Brief Desiderata for an Alphabetically Ordered Mandarin-English Dictionary (1991) (0)
Symbol of Universal Kingship: A Study of the Imagery on the Brocade with Lion Hunting in the Horyuji Temple (2021) (0)
Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic (1995) (0)
12. The Tradition of the Daode jing (2017) (0)
Four Decades of Evolving Research Strategies (2014) (0)
Factual Narrative in Pre-Modern China: Historiography – Its Nature, Function and Influence on Narrative Fiction (2019) (0)
Beyond the Question of the Monkey Imposter : Indian Influence on the Chinese Novel The Journey to the West by Ramnath Subbaraman (2011) (0)
Rogers: Writing systems: A linguistic approach (2005) (0)
The Tale of Master Yuan of Mount Lu (2005) (0)
67. Vernacular Paraphrases of the Classics for the Mongol Rulers (2017) (0)
Introduction. Reconceptualizing the Silk Roads (2014) (0)
Religions and Religious Space in Sogdian Culture: A View from Archaeological and Written Sources (2020) (0)
4 Primers in Tangut and Chinese (2015) (0)
A “Black Cult” in Early Medieval China: Iranian-Zoroastrian Influence in the Northern Dynasties* (2017) (0)
On Proto-Shang (2013) (0)
Archaeological Findings of the Tarim Basin Graves and Mummies (2020) (0)
Long & Zheng: The Dong language (2002) (0)
On Proto-Shang (2013) (0)
IN MEMORIAM: ELLING O. EIDE (2012) (0)
Associate Editors (2003) (0)
Maitrisimit and the narrative traditions (2013) (0)
The Name “ Sakā (2014) (0)
Foreword: Old Wine in New Bottles (2012) (0)
92. Xu Bing, “The Living Word” (2017) (0)
Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989), xxiii, 412 pp. Cloth $60.00 (1991) (0)
Publishing Data and Statistics on Translated Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland BNB Literary Translations (2013) (0)
Majiayao Legacy : A Neolithic Record of Astronomy , Acupuncture , and Midwifery (2015) (0)
Books received (2008) (0)
73. Lu Xixing (attrib.), Romance of the Investiture of the Gods (2017) (0)
Reviews (2005) (0)
Indian Philosophy Beyond India: A Reconsideration of Vaiśeṣika 勝論 and Its Sources in East Asia (2021) (0)
Reviews (2005) (0)

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