• Victor Henry Mair (/mɛər/; born March 25, 1943) is an American sinologist currently serving as a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania...
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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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  • 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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    the limitations of human knowledge and the rational world. Sinologist Victor H. Mair compares Zhuang Zhou's process of reasoning to Socratic dialogue—exemplified...
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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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  • 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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    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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