Sabina Knight 桑稟華 is Professor Emerita of Chinese and World Literatures at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she taught from 1998 to 2024. In addition to Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2012, translated into four languages), she is author of The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Harvard, 2006), and essays in The National Interest, 翻译家的对话 [Translators' Dialogues], World Literature Today, and other journals of literature, Chinese studies, and the medical humanities. She is also a translator, a speaker on Chinese-English literary and cultural translation, and a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on US-China Relations. Her current projects consider the politics of translation, non-Han literatures, and media of dissent.