Damien Chaussende is a researcher at the CNRS and a member of Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale (CRCAO). His research focuses on the history and historiography of ancient and medieval China. He is the author of Des Trois royaumes aux Jin (2010) and translated the inner chapters of Liu Zhiji's Traité de l'historien parfait (Shitong) (2014). He has edited, jointly with François Martin, a Dictionnaire biographique du haut Moyen Âge chinois (2020), and with Daniel Morgan and Karine Chemla, a collection entitled Monographs in Tang Official Historiography (2019). He is currently editing a ten-volume general history of China for Les Belles Lettres.