Victor H. Mair : a celebration / edited by Neil Schmid and Diana Shuheng Zhang.

Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2023]

©2023

x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

List of FiguresIntroduction: Victor H. Mair at 80 (Neil Schmid)1: From China to the Silk Roads with Victor Mair (Vito S. Acosta)2: Chinese Folk and Popular Literature (Mark Bender)3: The Restless Spirit of Research (Rostislav Berezkin)4: Traveling with Victor H. Mair on the Silk Route (Daniel Boucher)5: On the Way to Xinjiang (Claudia Chang)6: A Breaker of Borders (Jinhua Chen)7: The Many Ways Of Knowing (Sara de Rose)8: Memorable Words (Ronald Egan)9: A Scholar for All Seasons (Peter B. Golden)10: An Intellectual Connoisseur (Zihan Guo)11: Victor Mair-Mentor, Colleague, Friend (William C. Hannas)12: A Life-Altering Graduate Seminar (Valerie Hansen)13: The True History of Tea (Erling Hoh)14: "Best Wishes" (Judith A. Lerner)15: Mummy Chasing with Victor Mair (J. P. Mallory)16: A Long Journey Back in Time with Victor (Patrick E. McGovern)17: How Victor Mair and I Wrote "The Sanskrit Origins of Recent Style Prosody" (Tsu-Lin Mei)18: How Many Victor Mairs Are There? (David Moser)19: Travels with Victor (William H. Nienhauser, Jr.)20: The Man with Insatiable Curiosity (S. Robert Ramsey)21: Victor Mair, Publisher and Runner (Paula Roberts)22: The Contemplative Victor Mair (Harold Roth)23: Confucius in Philadelphia (Lilla Russell-Smith)24: Bring Out Your Dead (Haun Saussy)25: Creating Affinities (Neil Schmid)26: From Beijing to Penn and Beyond (Tansen Sen)27: A Sino-Platonic Friendship (Edward L. Shaughnessy)28: How to Nourish Life (Mark Swofford)29: The Ent (Toni Tan)30: Unapologetic Philology (Nicholas J. Tursi)31: Remembering Great Teachers (Bryan W. Van Norden)32: From the Fringes (Julie Lee Wei)33: Victor Mair, My Intellectual Father (Sophie Ling-chia Wei)34: From Beijing to Philadelphia (Jidong Yang)35: A Laowai Who Owed Me in a Previous Life (Taishan Yu)36: The Spirit of the Snail (Diana Shuheng Zhang)37: The Tarim Bond (He Zhang)38: Mei Xiansheng's Car (Qingzhi Zhu)Selected Bibliography of Victor H. MairCambria Sinophone World SeriesSpecial Thanks

Hundreds, if not the thousands, of people have benefited from the kindness of Professor Victor Mair. Stories proliferate of him coming to the aid of others. Just a fraction of these stories of his generosity have been published in Victor H. Mair: A Celebration in honor of his eightieth birthday.In this special book of tributes, students, colleagues, and friends reflect, in reminiscences that range from touching to hilarious, on how Professor Mair has impacted their lives. This collection includes essays from luminaries such as Daniel Boucher, Ronald Egan, Valerie Hansen, Harold Roth, Haun Saussy, Tansen Sen, and more.Together, the 38 essays show how Victor H. Mair has served as a selfless pioneer across disciplines, opening doors to all interested and providing a model of mentorship. This book is a most inspiring must-read of testimonials about how one incredible scholar has changed the lives of so many for the better. https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=1030

English

November 06, 2023

Selected bibliography of Victor H. Mair: pages 249-269.

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