Lisa Ann Raphals (born May 15, 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and

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, and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. She compares early 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.

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