Haun Saussy is the University Professor at the University of Chicago, former president (2009-2011) of the American Comparative Literature Association, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests focus on Classical Chinese poetry and commentary; literary theory; comparative study of oral traditions; problems of translation; pre-twentieth-century media history; ethnography and ethics of medical care. Major publications: The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic; Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China; Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out；A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602)；Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines: Literature With Other Arts, etc.