• Victor Henry Mair (/mɛər/; born March 25, 1943) is an American sinologist. He is a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania. Among other...
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    2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences...
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    A theory by Victor H. Mair connects the Chinese word (Old Chinese *myag, pinyin wū, Cantonese mou4 ) to Persian maguš. See: Victor H. Mair, “Old Sinitic...
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    Ruth H. (2000). "Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (108). Victor H. Mair. ISSN 2157-9679...
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    Civilizations. Facts on File. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-8160-4640-9. Mallory, J. P.; Mair, Victor H. (2000), The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest...
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    mummy's DNA, due to fears that it would aid Uyghur nationalists. In 1993, Victor H. Mair and Italian geneticist Paolo Francalacci, were able to test some tissue...
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    2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)", in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences...
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  • Ruth H. (2000). "Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (108). Victor H. Mair. ISSN 2157-9679...
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    for the development of pressure points used in Chinese Martial arts. Victor H. Mair describes him as "many hundreds of years ahead of his time in medical...
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    Ruth H. (2000). "Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (108). Victor H. Mair. ISSN 2157-9679...
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    2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)", in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences...
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    the limitations of human knowledge and the rational world. Sinologist Victor H. Mair compares Zhuangzi's process of reasoning to Socratic dialogue—exemplified...
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  • Ruth H. (2000). "Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (108). Victor H. Mair. ISSN 2157-9679...
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  • recognize them as Han Chinese and that they did not use Chinese characters. Victor H. Mair notes that what little is recorded of their speech indicates a degree...
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    education, politics and the press in the United States. Sinologist Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania states the popular interpretation...
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  • Hector Mair (1517–1579), Augsburg civil servant Michael Mair (born 1962), Italian skier Natascha Mair, Austrian ballet dancer Victor H. Mair, American...
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    Hero Sun Wukong, Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 81. September 1998, Editor: Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania Lutgendorf 2007, pp. 31–32. Gopal, Madan...
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    names: authors list (link) Paul Kroll, "Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty," in Victor H. Mair, ed., The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. (New York: Columbia...
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    after death. Some covered the bodies with clay or salt. According to Victor H. Mair in the Discovery Channel series The Mystery of the Tibetan Mummy, the...
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  • Anthony and earlier scholars such as Leo Klejn, J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair have linked the Afanasevans to the Proto-Tocharian language. Afanasievan...
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    to have moved to the region from Central Asia. American Sinologist Victor H. Mair claims that "the earliest mummies in the Tarim Basin were exclusively...
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    Ruth H. (2000). "Understanding Di and Tian: Deity and Heaven from Shang to Tang Dynasties" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (108). Victor H. Mair. ISSN 2157-9679...
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    im westlichen Mittelmeerraum. Tübingen. Dexter, Miriam Robbins, and Victor H. Mair. (2010) Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia...
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    China and the World, c. 4500 BC – AD 200". Sino-Platonic Papers (192). Victor H. Mair. Volume I: The Ancient Eurasian World and the Celestial Pivot, Volume...
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  • and Victor H.Mair. (2000) The Tarim Mummies, p. 92. Thames & Hudson Ltd., New York and London. ISBN 0-500-05101-1. J. P. Mallory and Victor H.Mair. (2000)...
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    China and the World, c. 4500 BC – AD 200". Sino-Platonic Papers (192). Victor H. Mair. Volume I: The Ancient Eurasian World and the Celestial Pivot, Volume...
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    Chinglish, by Kira Simon–Kennedy, SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS, Number 224 May 2012 Victor H. Mair, ed., "Developments in Chinese Language and Script During the 20th and...
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    China and the World, c. 4500 BC – AD 200". Sino-Platonic Papers (192). Victor H. Mair. Volume I: The Ancient Eurasian World and the Celestial Pivot, Volume...
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    Chapters of the Zhuangzi," Philosophy East and West 46 (2):247-268. Victor H. Mair, ed. (2002), The Columbia history of Chinese literature, Columbia University...
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    ISBN 978-0-670-03156-6. The Art of War: Sunzi's Military Methods. Translated by Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-13382-1....
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