Victor H. Mair | |||||||||||||
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| Born | March 25, 1943 East Canton, Ohio, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College (BA) SOAS University of London (BA, MPhil) Harvard University (PhD) | ||||||||||||
| Known for | Dunhuang manuscripts, Tarim mummies | ||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Chang Li-ch'ing (Zhang Liqing)
(m. 1969; died 2010) | ||||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||||
| Fields | Chinese literature, history, Buddhist texts | ||||||||||||
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick Hanan | ||||||||||||
| Other academic advisors | James Robert Hightower | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 梅維恆 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 梅维恒 | ||||||||||||
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Victor Henry Mair (/mɛər/;[1] born March 25, 1943) is an American sinologist currently serving as 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 (Cambria Press), and his book coauthored with Miriam Robbins Dexter (published by Cambria Press), Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia, won the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology.