Lisa Ann Raphals (born May 15, 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside (UCR),[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 translations entitled What Country.
Raphals is married to John C. Baez, who is a professor of mathematics at UCR.
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