LECTURE- James Millward, Present and Past in Xinjiang, May 10, 2007, London

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LECTURE- James Millward, History and Present in Xinjiang, May 10, 2007, London

Posted by: James A. Millward <millwarj@georgetown.edu>

Seminar

Date: Thursday, 10 May 2007
Time: 5:30pm

Title: "Eurasian Crossroads: History and the present in Xinjiang,
Chinese Central Asia"
Speaker: James A. Millward

Venue: Room B111, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

Enquiries: Bhavna Dave (Centre Chair) bd4@soas.ac.uk (Tel: 020 7898
4734) or Jane Savory js64@soas.ac.uk (Tel: 020 7898 4892)

All Welcome

Seminar Abstract:
The western Chinese region known today as Xinjiang lies at the center
of the Eurasian continent, and has always been the hub of the silk
roads network. In his lecture, Prof. James Millward will discuss the
broad pattern of Xinjiang's past, including environmental and
political factors that have shaped relationships between north China,
the Tarim Basin oases, the steppes north of the Tianshan over two
millennia. Changes in the strategic balance of steppe and sown and in
the relationship between man and the environment in Xinjiang since the
18th century have revised this pattern, and underlie many aspects of
the situation in Xinjiang today.

Speaker:
James A. Millward (BA. Harvard 1982, MA School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London 1986; Ph.D. Stanford 1993) is Associate
Professor of Intersocietal History in the Edmund Walsh School of
Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He specializes on the modern
history of China and Central Asia, including Mongolia, Tibet and
especially Xinjiang. His publications include Crossroads of Eurasia:
A History of Xinjiang (Columbia, 2007), New Qing Imperial History: the
Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde (RoutledgeCurzon 2004),
and Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central
Asia, 1759-1864 (Stanford, 1998).

All are Welcome (seminars are free and open to the public). Booking
is not required unless otherwise stated.

Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh
Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG

Centre website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/

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