James A. Millward is Professor of Intersocietal History at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, teaching Chinese, Central Asian, and world history. His specialties include the Qing empire, the silk road, Eurasian lutes and music in history, and historical and contemporary Xinjiang. He follows and comments on current issues regarding Uyghurs and Xinjiang and People’s Republic of China ethnicity policy.
Millward has served on the boards of the Association for Asian Studies (China and Inner Asia Council) and the Central Eurasian Studies Society, and was President of the Central Eurasian Studies Society in 2010. His publications include Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang (Columbia University Press, 2007, 2021), The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013), New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde (Routledge, 2004), and Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 (Stanford University Press, 1998). His most recent album, recorded with the band By & By, is Songs for this Old Heart. His articles and op-eds on contemporary China have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, and other media.
