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Victor H. Mair: A Scholar Told in Chapters

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A multilingual memorial archive tracing sinologist Victor H. Mair from an Ohio childhood and Peace Corps service in Nepal to Dunhuang, the Tarim Basin, and forty-seven years at Penn.

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The archive uses numbered chapters to connect biography with scholarship, moving from East Canton and a Peace Corps posting in Nepal through Dunhuang, the Tarim Basin, books, Penn, and tributes. Its materials include family quotations, 26 images, Chinese and English text, and links to lectures, articles, reviews, and institutional collections. Several parts remain explicitly unfinished: family-history material is being gathered, the personal-life section says “Coming soon,” and a Swarthmorean obituary is still pending.

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