Haun Saussy
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Haun Saussy is University Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford UP, 1993), Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham UP, 2016), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford UP, 2017), Are We Comparing Yet? On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability (Columbia UP, 2019), and The Making of Barbarians: China in Multilingual Asia (Princeton UP, 2022). Saussy has edited Chinese Women Poets, An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism from Ancient Times to 1911 (with Kang-i Sun Chang; Stanford, 1999); Comparative Literature in an Era of Globalization (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), Sinographies: Writing China (with Steven Yao and Eric Hayot; University of Minnesota Press, 2005), The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound (with Jonathan Stalling and Lucas Klein; Fordham University Press, 2008), Chinese Walls in Time and Space (with Roger des Forges, Chiao-mei Liu and Gao Minglu; Cornell Asia Center, 2009), Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (University of California Press, 2010), and Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (with Perry Meisel; Columbia University Press, 2011).