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Professor James Millward (Georgetown University) joins History Department as Visiting Scholar for 2022 Winter Quarter

James Millward

Professor James Millward (Georgetown University) joins the History Department as a Visiting Scholar in the 2022 Winter Quarter.

Professor Milward received his PhD from Stanford History, studying with the late Professor Harold Kahn. One of the most important Qing historians and Xinjiang analysts in the United States, he has published widely on the Silk Road, Eurasian lutes and music, PRC ethnicity policy. His most recent publications include Eurasian Crossroads: a History of Xinjiang (Columbia University Press, 2021), The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013), New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde (Routledge 2004), and Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia (Stanford University, 1998). He is the editor for Silk Roads book series published by the Chicago University Press. Professor Millward has served on the boards of the Association for Asian Studies’s China and Inner Asia Council and the Central Eurasian Studies Society, and was president of the Central Eurasian Studies Society in 2010. His articles on contemporary China have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books.  He is an occasional commentator on the PBS Newshour, the Sinica Podcast, All Things Considered, Al Jazeera, i24 News among other networks. He is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled Lutes on the Silk Road: What the Journey of a Musical Instrument tells us about Cultural Exchange across Eurasia, from Ancient to Modern Times, and has been actively involved in documenting and publicizing crimes against humanity in contemporary Xinjian.

His Stanford residency is made possible through a collaboration with Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). To arrange an appointment with Professor Millward, please contact him at his Georgetown email address.