James A. Millward is an American historian. He is currently a professor of inter-societal history at

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Walsh School of Foreign Service The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It grants degrees at both Undergraduate education, undergraduate and Postgraduate education, graduate lev ...

. His research focuses on Chinese and Central Asian history, including the region of

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

Education

Millward holds a BA from

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, an MA from

SOAS University of London The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

, and a PhD from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

Awards

Milward received a

Fulbright The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people ...

grant in 2022 to conduct research in Norway.

Publications

Books

* Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang (revised edition), ''

Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's la ...

'', December 2021 * The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction, ''

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'', April 12, 2013 * Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864, ''

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'', June 1998

Articles

* China’s New Anti-Uyghur Campaign, ''

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit organization, nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership or ...

'', January 23, 2023 * Why It Matters That China’s Protests Started in Xinjiang, ''

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'', December 6, 2022 * What Xi Jinping Hasn’t Learned From China’s Emperors, ''

'', October 1, 2019

Book Reviews

* ‘Reeducating’ Xinjiang’s Muslims,' ''New York Review of Books'', February 2019

Edited Volumes

* ''New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde''. Co-edited with Mark Elliott, Ruth Dunnell, and Philippe Forêt.

RoutledgeCurzon Routledge ( ) is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, a ...

, 2004.

References

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