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Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age by Li, Chunxiang, Li, Hongjie, Cui, Yinqiu, Xie, Chengzhi, Cai, Dawei, Li, Wenying, Mair, Victor H, Xu, Zhi, Zhang, Quanchao, Abuduresule, Idelisi, Jin, Li, Zhu, Hong, Zhou, Hui

“…The Tarim Basin, located on the ancient Silk Road, played a very important role in the history of human migration and cultural communications between the West…”
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ZHOU YOUGUANG 周有光 (JANUARY 13,1906 - JANUARY 14, 2017) by Mair, Victor H

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A western Eurasian male is found in 2000-year-old elite Xiongnu cemetery in Northeast Mongolia by Kim, Kijeong, Brenner, Charles H., Mair, Victor H., Lee, Kwang-Ho, Kim, Jae-Hyun, Gelegdorj, Eregzen, Batbold, Natsag, Song, Yi-Chung, Yun, Hyeung-Won, Chang, Eun-Jeong, Lkhagvasuren, Gavaachimed, Bazarragchaa, Munkhtsetseg, Park, Ae-Ja, Lim, Inja, Hong, Yun-Pyo, Kim, Wonyong, Chung, Sang-In, Kim, Dae-Jin, Chung, Yoon-Hee, Kim, Sung-Su, Lee, Won-Bok, Kim, Kyung-Yong

“…We analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y‐chromosome single nucleotide polymorphisms (Y‐SNP), and autosomal short tandem repeats (STR) of three skeletons found…”
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Molecular genetic analysis of remains from Lamadong cemetery, Liaoning, China by Wang, Haijing, Ge, Binwen, Mair, Victor H., Cai, Dawei, Xie, Chengzhi, Zhang, Quanchao, Zhou, Hui, Zhu, Hong

“…The Xianbei existed as a remarkable nomadic tribe in northeastern China for three dynasties: the Han, Jin, and Northern‐Southern dynasties (206 BC to 581 AD)…”
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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History by Mair, Victor H.

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A “Black Cult” in Early Medieval China: Iranian-Zoroastrian Influence in the Northern Dynasties by CHEN, SANPING, MAIR, VICTOR H

“…Through an analysis of Chinese theophoric names - a genre that emerged in the early medieval period largely under heavy Iranian-Sogdian influence - we suggest…”
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Comments on Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels by Mair, Victor H.

“…When volume 2 of Victor Lieberman's magnum opus first came out a couple of years ago, several colleagues specializing in Southeast Asian Studies called it to…”
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What is Geyi, After All? by Mair, Victor H.

“…The term geyi is often rendered as ‘matching concepts’ and held to be a key means for the transmission of Buddhism from India to China. It is said to be a…”
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Mitochondrial DNA analysis of human remains from the Yuansha site in Xinjiang, China by Gao, ShiZhu, Cui, YinQiu, Yang, YiDai, Duan, RanHui, Abuduresule, Idelisi, Mair, Victor H., Zhu, Hong, Zhou, Hui

“…The Yuansha site is located in the center of the Taklimakan Desert of Xinjiang, in the southern Silk Road region. MtDNA was extracted from fifteen human…”
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REVIEW OF THE REPRESENTATION OF CANTONESE WITH CHINESE CHARACTERS BY CHEUNG KWAN-HIN AND ROBERT S. BAUER by Mair, Victor H

“…A review of Cheung Kwan-Hin & Robert S. Bauer's The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters (2002) identifies the topics of this book's four…”
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ZHOU YOUGUANG 周有光: JANUARY 13,1906 -- JANUARY 14, 2017 by Mair, Victor H.

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Buddhism and the Rise of the Written Vernacular in East Asia: The Making of National Languages by Mair, Victor H.

“…The vast majority of premodern chinese literature, certainly all of the most famous works of the classical tradition, were composed in one form or another of…”
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The Yuezhi: Origins, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria. By Craig G. R. Benjamin. Louvain: Brepols, 2006. xviii, 245 pp. $72.00 (paper) by Mair, Victor H.

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The Flood Myths of Early China By Mark Edward Lewis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. vii+248. $25.95 (paper) by Mair, Victor H.

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The cultures of ancient Xinjiang, Western China: crossroads of the silk roads by Mair, Victor H

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Reply to Ben-Ami Scharfstein by Mair, Victor H.

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JOHN DEFRANCIS, AUGUST 31, 1911-JANUARY 2, 2009 by Mair, Victor H.

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OLD SINITIC "MyAG", OLD PERSIAN "MAGUŠ", AND ENGLISH "MAGICIAN" by MAIR, VICTOR H.

“…The 1980 discovery at Chou-yüan (site of an important Western Chou palace complex) of two small human heads with Caucasoid features sculpted from mollusk shell…”
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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History. By James A. Benn. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. Pp. 304. $65.00.) by Mair, Victor H.

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The Sanskrit Origins of Recent Style Prosody by Mair, Victor H., Mei, Tsu-Lin

“…It is shown that, under the influence of the Sanskrit theory of poetic defects, Shen Yueh and his followers invented tonal prosody in order to reproduce, in…”
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