Lisa Raphals

Lisa Ann Raphals (born May 15, 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at University of California, Riverside, and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. She comparesearly 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.

• Raphals, Lisa Ann (1992). Knowing words: wisdom and cunning in the classical traditions of China and Greece. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801426193.
• Raphals, Lisa Ann (1994). What Country. North and South. ISBN 978-1870314244.
• Raphals, Lisa Ann (1998). Sharing the light: representations of women and virtue in early China. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0585059457.
• Raphals, Lisa (2013). Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107010758.
• Raphals, Lisa; Poo, Mu-chou; Drake, Harold Allen (2017). Old Society, New Belief: Religious Transformation of China and Rome, Ca. 1st-6th Centuries. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190278373. OCLC 951754430.