About the Author

James A. Millward is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University, USA.

Ruth W. Dunnell is James Storer Associate Professor of History at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA.

Mark C. Elliott is Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University, USA.

Philippe Forêt is a Research Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and an Associate Researcher at both the Institute of Cartography of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich, and the Space and Culture Laboratory of Paris IV Sorbonne University, France.