Victor H Mair

Dados Biográficos

ID3639347
NOMEVictor H Mair
PRENOMESVictor H
SOBRENOMEMair
ASSINATURAMAIR V H
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS82
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES132
TOTAL COMO AUTOR76
TOTAL COMO EDITOR6
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1885
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

    Open AccessYuanfei Wang, Victor H MairBOOKEarly Globalism and Chinese…2026

    Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes two primary forms. The first is Buddhist literary diffusion, whose revolutionary impact on Chinese language and literature is illustrated through scriptural translation, transformation texts, and 'journey to the West' stories. The second, facilitated diffusion, engages with the maritime world, traced through the seafaring journey of …

  • Language and Ideology in the Written Popularizations of the Sacred Edict

    Victor H MairCHAPTERPopular Culture in Late Imperial…2023

  • Experimental Essays on Chuang-Tzu

    Victor H MairBOOKExperimental Essays on Chuang-Tzu2022

  • Gazing Eastwards

    Open AccessVictor H Mair, Victor MairARTICLECrossroads2022

  • Yang Lian’s exilic poetry

    Victor H Mair, Victor Mair et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2021Citada por: 1Referências: 1

    This dedication was composed by Chinese poet and author Yang Lian and translated by John Minford, then head of the School of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland. It is inscribed upon a stone memorial hewn to resemble the geographical shape of China, dedicated to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The memorial stands outside St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Alten Road in Auckland, New Zealand. It was chosen by two Chines…

  • An Introduction to Seshat

    Peter Turchin, H Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cognitive Historiography2020

    This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…

  • Introduction

    Victor H MairCHAPTERContact and Exchange in the…2017

  • Many Faces of Mulian

    Open AccessBerezkin R, Rostislav Berezkin et al.BOOKMany Faces of Mulian2017Citada por: 1

    The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language, first appeared around the fourteenth century and endures as a living tradition. In exploring the evolution of the Mulian story, Rostislav Berezkin illuminates changes in the literary and religious characteristics of the g…

  • Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World

    Jerry H Bentley, Peter B Golden et al.BOOKContact and Exchange in the…2017Citada por: 47

    Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion? The contributors to this volume do not attempt to provide a definitive answer to this contentious question, one of the most debated issues of the past century. Instead, they shift the focus from theory to reality by presenting empirical evidence on a wide range of cultural phenomena in history and prehistory, thereby demonstrating the processes whereby …

  • A “Black Cult” in Early Medieval China

    Open AccessSanping Chen, Victor H MairARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…2017Referências: 17

    Through an analysis of Chinese theophoric names - a genre that emerged in the early medieval period largely under heavy Iranian-Sogdian influence - we suggest that there was a contemporary ‘black worship’ or ‘black cult’ in northern China that has since vanished. The followers of this ‘black cult’ ranged from common people living in ethnically mixed frontier communities to the ruling echelons of the Northern Dynasties. By tapping into the fragmen…

  • Evidence of Eurasian metal alloys on the Alaskan coast in prehistory

    Open AccessH K Cooper, Owen K Mason et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2016Citada por: 9Referências: 17

  • Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours

    Liam C Kelley, Victor H Mair et al.BOOKImperial China and Its Southern…2015

    "At a time when China–Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the south through time. With multiple aims of exploring the relations between northern Chinese cultures and those of the south, examining the cultural plurality of areas which are today parts of Southern China, and illuminating the relations between Sini…

  • The Precious Scroll on Bodhisattva Guanshiyin from Jingjiang, and Confucian Morality

    Berezkin R, Rostislav Berezkin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Chinese Religions2014

    This article deals with the special features of the contents of the Precious Scroll on Bodhisattva Guanshiyin from Xiangshan (Xiangshan Guanshiyin baojuan 香山觀世音寳卷), a prosimetric text performed in Jingjiang 靖江, and its role in the local culture. Though based on written narratives, this text exists primarily as an oral version in the tradition of religious storytelling called “scripture telling” (jiangjing 講經). We trace the origin of this text and…

  • The Northern Cemetery

    Victor H MairCHAPTERReconfiguring the Silk Road2014

  • Reconfiguring the Silk Road

    Colin Renfrew, Victor H Mair et al.BOOKReconfiguring the Silk Road2014

    From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over…

  • Religious Formations and Intercultural Contacts in Early China

    Open AccessVictor H MairCHAPTERDynamics in the History of…2012

    This chapter develops a model of cultural interfusion for the period of early - before the Qin (221-206 BC) and the Western Han (206 BC-23 AD) dynasties and moving backward in time through the Iron Age to the Bronze Age and beyond. This is the time of China before China, to adopt the fine phrase turned by Fiskesjo and Chen. Instead of a comprehensive survey of the evolution of religion within the present territory of during pre-Qin (i. e., pre-im…

  • What is Geyi , After All

    Open AccessVictor H MairARTICLEChina Report2012Citada por: 13Referências: 8

    The term geyi is often rendered as ‘matching concepts’ and held to be a key means for the transmission of Buddhism from India to China. It is said to be a translation technique whereby Buddhists borrowed Taoist terms to express Indian ideas in Chinese. This study thoroughly debunks that notion, demonstrating that geyi was actually a very short-lived attempt to deal with numbered lists that came to China from India in great profusion during the ea…

  • Autobiographical Features In Bai Juyi’s "Biography Of The Maestro Of Mellow Versification"

    Victor H Mair, Berezkin R et al.CHAPTERText, performance, and gender in…2010

    This chapter deals with the writing of Bai Juyi, tZui yin xiansheng zhuant. Though Biography is very brief, it offers a large amount of information on the poet's private life. At the same time it is deeply rooted in the previous literary tradition. In order to reveal its message, the author pens his observations on what is traditional and what is personal in this piece by Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi was one of the prominent poets of the middle period of t…

  • A western Eurasian male is found in 2000‐year‐old elite Xiongnu cemetery in Northeast Mongolia

    Open AccessKijeong Kim, Charles H Brenner et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2010Citada por: 5Referências: 61

    We analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y‐chromosome single nucleotide polymorphisms (Y‐SNP), and autosomal short tandem repeats (STR) of three skeletons found in a 2,000‐year‐old Xiongnu elite cemetery in Duurlig Nars of Northeast Mongolia. This study is one of the first reports of the detailed genetic analysis of ancient human remains using the three types of genetic markers. The DNA analyses revealed that one subject was an ancient male skeleto…

  • The Prehistory of the Silk Road

    E E Kuzmina, E E HG Kuzmina et al.BOOKPrehistory of the Silk Road2008

    In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West. A vast network of trade routes, it connected the diverse geographies and populations of China, the Eurasian Steppe, Central Asia, India, Western Asia, and Europe. Although its main use was for importing silk from China, traders moving in the opposite direction carried to China jewelry, glassware, and ot…

  • Molecular genetic analysis of remains from Lamadong cemetery, Liaoning, China

    Open AccessHaijing Wang, Binwen Ge et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2007Citada por: 2Referências: 29

    The Xianbei existed as a remarkable nomadic tribe in northeastern China for three dynasties: the Han, Jin, and Northern‐Southern dynasties (206 BC to 581 AD) in Chinese history. A very important subtribe of the Xianbei is the Murong Xianbei. To investigate the genetic structure of the Murong Xianbei population and to address its genetic relationships with other nomadic tribes at a molecular level, we analyzed the control region sequences and codi…

  • Hawaii Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture

    Victor H Mair, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt et al.BOOKHawaii Reader in Traditional…2005

  • Wandering on the way

    Chuang-tzu Chuang-tzu, Victor H Mair

    A contemporary translation remaining faithful to the original collection of tales, poems and parables of Taoist philosophy. The collection covers a wide range of issues, from ambition to politics, and is accompanied by an introduction on the author and his place in Chinese thought and history.

  • Lao-Tzu

    Robert G Henricks, Ellen M Chen et al.

    A cycle of short poems, this is a work of world literature and has the significance of the Bible for more than a quarter of humanity. Written in two halves, the Tao (way) and the Te (virtue), it is treasured for its poetic statements about life's most profound and elusive truths.

  • The cultures of ancient Xinjiang, Western China

    Victor H MairCitada por: 2

    This is a major achievement in Xinjiang archeology. The editors and authors are to be warmly congratulated for making available to researchers worldwide a rich assemblage of raw data that has been