{"id":2246,"date":"2017-10-11T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=2246"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:08:42","slug":"raphals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/raphals\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Lisa Raphals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2l8bcm-524647ce7ac9d5e0929d5a596a47b65e\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-2l8bcm-524647ce7ac9d5e0929d5a596a47b65e{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-2l8bcm-524647ce7ac9d5e0929d5a596a47b65e .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-2l8bcm-524647ce7ac9d5e0929d5a596a47b65e .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-2l8bcm-524647ce7ac9d5e0929d5a596a47b65e av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-es52ie-2f0deca787786f9f853b338b12640e00\">\n.flex_column.av-es52ie-2f0deca787786f9f853b338b12640e00{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-es52ie-2f0deca787786f9f853b338b12640e00 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-cc3252-ff94d2f3c62db21aef05ebe9134951c3  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Lisa Raphals<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, <em>Chinese\/Comparative Literature<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Ph.D., Committee in Social Thought, University of Chicago, 1989<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2509<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:lisa.raphals@ucr.edu\">lisa.raphals@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-af1f46-605d3b815ff9264b6c7b95de80fa0efa\">\n.flex_column.av-af1f46-605d3b815ff9264b6c7b95de80fa0efa{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-af1f46-605d3b815ff9264b6c7b95de80fa0efa av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-9edz46-90557b60705d8866b973be2f40ba8a11 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Lisa Raphals studies the cultures of early China and Classical Greece, with research and teaching interests across several areas: comparative philosophy, religion, history of science, and gender, with other interests in poetics and science fiction and media studies. She is the author of three books: <em>Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece<\/em> (Cornell UP, 1992), <em>Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China <\/em>(SUNY Press, 1998) and <em>What Country<\/em>, a book of poems and translations (North and South, 1993).<\/p>\n<p>Her representative articles include \u201cSkeptical Strategies in the Zhuangzi and Theaetetus\u201d (<em>Philosophy East &amp; West<\/em>), \u201cThe Treatment of Women in a Second-Century Medical Casebook\u201d <em>(Chinese Science<\/em>), \u201cArguments by Women in Early Chinese Sources\u201d (<em>Nan Nu<\/em>, a gender studies journal), \u201cGender and Virtue in Greece and China\u201d (<em>Journal of Chinese Philosophy<\/em>), \u201cChinese and Greek Calculations and Categories\u201d (<em>East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine<\/em>), \u201cFate, Fortune, Chance and Luck in Chinese and Greek\u201d (<em>Philosophy East &amp; West<\/em>), and \u201cCordwainer Smith and the <em>Soushenji<\/em>: Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of \u2018Humanity\u2019\u201d (in <em>Dream Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Professor Raphals is Book Review Editor ( East Asia ) for the journal <em>Philosophy East &amp; West<\/em>. Some of her favorite courses to teach are \u201cRhetoric and Argumentation in China and Greece ,\u201d \u201cEngendering China: Women in Chinese History,\u201d \u201cTaoist Traditions,\u201d \u201cMedical Traditions in China and Greece ,\u201d and \u201cThe Ancient Sciences Through Science Fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-70p9qe-6ee4f4305ecf75d6019ae8a95a301234  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-5q5tdi-76a2979c81666c10245051548410c1c2'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>Professor Raphals\u2019 Curriculum Vitae<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Lisa Raphals<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor, <em>Chinese\/Comparative Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Degrees<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. Committee on Social Thought 1989 University of Chicago, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>M.A. Classics 1976 Boston College, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>B.A. Psychology 1974 Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research Specialization<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East-West comparative studies<\/li>\n<li>Chinese<\/li>\n<li>Greek<\/li>\n<li>comparative philosophy and history of science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research Affiliations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1996-present<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1995<\/li>\n<li>Exchange Scholar, Harvard University, 1984-87<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Institution<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bard College, Annandale, New York<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Publications<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Books\/Monographs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.)<\/p>\n<p>Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.)<\/p>\n<p>What Country [original poems and translations from the Chinese, French and Greek]. (Twickenham, England: North and South Press, 1994.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Articles and Contributions to Books:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Arguments by Women in Early Chinese Sources.<\/em> (Forthcoming)<\/p>\n<p><em>Gendered Virtue Reconsidered: Notes from the Warring States and Han.<\/em> Confucianism and the Second Sex, Chenyang Li, ed. (LaSalle, IL: Open Court. Forthcoming)<\/p>\n<p><em>A Woman Who Understood the Rites.<\/em> Essays on the Analects of Confucius. Bryan W. Van Nordon, ed. (Oxford University Press. Forthcoming)<\/p>\n<p><em>Science and Civilization in China.<\/em> Volume 7, Part 1. Logic and Language, by Christoph Harbsmeier. (Cambridge, 1998)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Treatment of Women in a Second-Century Medical Casebook.<\/em>Chinese Science (1998) 7-28.<\/p>\n<p><em>On Hui Shi.<\/em> Free and Easy Wandering through the Zhuangzi. Roger T. Ames, ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Chinese Classics.<\/em> The International Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Routledge, 1998) 309-315.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skeptical Strategies in the Zhuangzi and Theaetetus.<\/em> Zhuangzi and Skepticism. P.J. Ivanhoe and Paul Kjellberg, ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.) Reprinted, with minor revisions, from Philosophy East and West 44:3 (July 1994): 501-26.<\/p>\n<p><em>Poetry and Argument in the Zhuangzi.<\/em> Journal of Chinese Religions, Fall 1994. 22:103-116.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reason, Spontaneity, and Awareness: A.C. Graham&#8217;s account of the Roots of Logic and Moral Action.<\/em> Double Review of Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China and Unreason within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality, both by AC Graham (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1989 and 1992, respectively) in Taoist Resources 4.2 (Dec. 1993): 53-60.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Book Reviews:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy, by David S. Nivison, Edited with an introduction by Byron W. Van Norden (La Salle, IL: Open Court Press 1996), in the Journal of Chinese Religions, Spring 2000, forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>The Original Analects Sayings of Confucius and His Successors. Translation and commentary by E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks (New York: Columbia University Presss, 1998), in International Studies in Philosophy, forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>Special issue of the Journal of Women&#8217;s History (Winter 1997). China Review International vol. 6.1 (1999): 137-139.<\/p>\n<p>Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. By G.E.R Lloyd (Cambridge, 1996), in Journal of Asian Studies 57.4 (November 1998): 1132-33.<\/p>\n<p>The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China. By Francois Jullien. Translated by Janet Lloyd. (Zone Books, 1995), in Philosophy East &amp; West 14.1 (January 1998): 170-173.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heaven, Not Nature, in the Xunzi.<\/em> Review of Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi: A Study of the Tian Lun by Edward J. Machle (SUNY, 1993) in Journal of Chinese Religions, 1996: 212-16.<\/p>\n<p>Law and Morality in Ancient China: the Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao by R.P. Peerenboom (SUNY, 1993), in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 17 (December 1995): 142-46.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Language Theory of Chinese Thought.<\/em> Review of A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, by Chand Hansen (Oxford 1992) in The Journal of Religion 75.1 (January 1995): 80-89.<\/p>\n<p>Unreason Within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality, by A.C. Graham (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1992), in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (BSOAS), 57.2 (1994).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Awards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Residential Fellow, center for the Study of Ideas and Society. Spring. 2001<\/li>\n<li>(Offered) Senior Fellowship, Center for World Religions, Harvard University 1998-1999<\/li>\n<li>Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Program Fellowship 1993<\/li>\n<li>University of Chicago, Center for East Asian Studies Fellowship 1988-89<\/li>\n<li>Junior Fellowship nomination, Society of Fellows, Harvard University 1984, 1987<\/li>\n<li>University of Chicago Tuition Fellowships 1982-85<\/li>\n<li>Boston College Tuition Fellowships 1974-76<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-485l3a-6a430d35421bfc15c701f145ce0bf221\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-485l3a-6a430d35421bfc15c701f145ce0bf221{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-485l3a-6a430d35421bfc15c701f145ce0bf221 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_button '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-32rj46-5b82756f22c5eff8bbcbdf9ffc9abb2c-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/'  class='avia-button av-32rj46-5b82756f22c5eff8bbcbdf9ffc9abb2c avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue88c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Back to Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1769,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2246\/revisions\/5086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}