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Victor Henry Mair (/ m ɛər /; [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.
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a reference book edited by Victor H. Mair and published by the Columbia University Press in 2002. The topics include all genres and periods of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama but also areas not traditionally thought of as literature, such as wit and humour, proverbs and rhetoric, historical and philosophical writings, classical exegesis, literary ...
The journal was established in 1986 by Victor H. Mair, to publish and encourage "unconventional or controversial" research by "younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors". [ 1 ]
The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature is a 2011 book edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender and published by the Columbia University Press.. Jörg Bäcker of the University of Bonn described it as "the first large-scale anthology of the folk literature in China ever published in the West". [1]
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Victor H. Mair describes the xian archetype as: They are immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children.
Victor H. Mair traced modern developments of the pseudo-geyi notion from a Chinese historian's hypothesis in the 1930s, to a Japanese scholar's "geyi Buddhism" proposal in the 1940s, through Buddhist dictionary entries in the 1970s, into general-purpose dictionaries and encyclopedias in the 1980s and 1990s, and to the present-day article of ...
Amanda Mair, Swedish singer and musician; Franz Mair (1821–1893), Austrian composer and choral conductor; Klaus Mair (born 1977), Austrian politician; Paulus Hector Mair (1517–1579), Augsburg civil servant; Michael Mair (born 1962), Italian skier; Natascha Mair, Austrian ballet dancer; Victor H. Mair, American Professor of Chinese Language ...