Ari is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Body Between China and the West (Duke, 2008) and Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Duke, 2018), and the translator of several novels. He is a recipient of the 2019 Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant (Book division).