Chinese Translation of Selected Essays of Haun Saussy

Published on June 7, 2023  

The Center for East Asian Studies congratulates Professor Haun Saussy (University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought) on the recent publication of the Chinese translation of Ru zhi he: Su Yuanxi zixuanji 如之何：蘇源熙自選集 (Comparatively Speaking: Selected Essays of Haun Saussy), ed. Ji Lingjuan 吉靈娟, Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2023.  The book contains 16 articles since 1993 in various fields of research on Chinese literature and culture, highlighting the significance of studying Chinese culture and the discovery and understanding of its differences and similarities with other cultures.  Through comparative research and rich textual analysis, Haussy discusses Chinese ritual culture and East Asian literary history and translation.

All renumeration from the publication has been donated to establish the “Qian Nanxiu Scholarship” to award outstanding graduate students majoring in ancient and classical Chinese literature at Nanjing University. Professor Qian Nanxiu (1947-2022) was an outstanding alumnus of Nanjing University, Professor of Chinese Literature at Rice University, and a former Yale classmate and dear friend of Professor Haun Saussy.  Qian specialized in the study of classical Chinese literature, Chinese intellectual history, comparative literature, and studies on the Sinosphere.