Contributors

DAVID BACHMAN is professor of political science at the University of Washington. He has written Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward (1991) and numerous articles on contemporary China.

GARDNER BOVINGDON is assistant professor of political science at Indiana University and is preparing a book on Chinese policy in Xinjiang.

URADYN E. BULAG is associate professor of anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia (1998) and The Mongols at China’s Edge (2002).

MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN is professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of numerous books on modern Tibet, including A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951 (1989) and The Snow Lion and the Dragon (1997).

METTE HALSKOV HANSEN is associate professor in the department of East European and Oriental studies at Oslo University and has written Lessons in Being Chinese: State Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China (1999).

MATTHEW T. KAPSTEIN is professor of religion at the University of Chicago and is the author of The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory (2000), as well as other works on Tibetan religion and society.

JONATHAN N. LIPMAN is professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and has written Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (1997), among other works.

MORRIS ROSSABI is professor of history at the City University of New York and visiting professor of Chinese and Inner Asian history at Columbia University. He is the author of Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (1988) and Voyager from Xanadu (1992), as well as chapters for exhibition catalogs of Mongol and Yuan art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.