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Haun Saussy’s work focuses largely on classical Chinese literature in a broad comparative context of rhetoric and intellectual history. Among his books written since coming to the University of Chicago are The Making of Barbarians: China in Multilingual Asia (Princeton University Press, 2022), Are We Comparing Yet: On Incomparablity, Standards, and Justice? (Bielefeld University Press, 2019), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2017), and The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham University Press, 2016). He is also a translator from Chinese, French, and Italian, and the editor of Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (University of California Press, 2010). Since 2011, Saussy has been University Professor at the University of Chicago.