The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

Stanford University presents a book talk on The Silk Road with Professor James A. Millward.

James A. Millward
Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University

Prof. Millward will discuss a draft of his new book, The Silk Road:  A Very Short Introduction.
James A. Millward (BA. Harvard 1982; M.A. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1985; Ph.D. Stanford 1993) is Professor of Intersocietal History at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he teaches Asian and world history. His research focuses on the modern history of Chinese frontiers with Inner and Central Asia, including Mongolia, Tibet and especially Xinjiang; he also researches global and silk road musical exchanges. Millward's publications include Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 (Stanford, 1998), New Qing Imperial History: The Manchu Summer Palace at Chengde (RoutledgeCurzon 2004), and Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang (Columbia, 2007).