Lisa Ann Raphals (born May 15, 1951) is an American professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside (UCR),^[1][2] and of philosophy at the National University of Singapore.^[3] 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.^[4]

Selected works

• ——— (1992). Knowing words: wisdom and cunning in the classical traditions of China and Greece. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801426193.
• ——— (1994). What Country. North and South. ISBN 978-1870314244.
• ——— (1998). Sharing the light: representations of women and virtue in early China. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0585059457.
• ——— (2013). Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107010758.
• ———; 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.
• * ——— (Winter 2020), "Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Medicine", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University((citation)): CS1 maint: date and year (link)