PUBLICATIONS

Books

Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press; London: C. Hurst, Co., 2006.

New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. (Chief editor; with assistance from Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott and Philippe Forêt)

Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Xinjiang, 1759-1864. Stanford University Press, 1998.


Scholarly articles


Millward, James and Laura Newby. "The Qing and Islam on the Western Frontier." In Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu and Donald Sutton, eds. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.

"The Advent of Modern Education on the Sino-Central Asian Frontier: Xinxue vs. usul-i jadid." Parker, B. J., and L. Rodseth, eds. Untaming the Frontier: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Studies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005 (forthcoming).

Violent Separatism in Xinjiang: A Critical Assessment. Policy Studies # 6. Washington: East-West Center, 2004.

"Contextualizing the Qing: the Return of the Torghuts and the End of History in Central Eurasia." In Lynn Struve, ed., The Qing Formation and World Time. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

"Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the late 19th Century" (with Peter Perdue). In Frederick Starr, ed. Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier. M. E. Sharpe, 2004.

"Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978" (with Nabijan Tursun). In Frederick Starr, ed. Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier. M. E. Sharpe, 2004.

"Not just China: Qing Dynasty Expansion and Eclecticism." International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Journal, Spring 2001.

"Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Xinjiang." Inner Asia 2 (2000): 121-135.

”Coming onto the Map: "Western Regions" Geography and Cartographic Nomenclature in the Making of Chinese Empire in Xinjiang." Late Imperial China 20, no.2 (Dec 1999): 61-98.

“An Historical Perspective on the Crisis in Chinese Turkestan: The Forgotten Legacy of the Qing Dynasty.” Woodrow Wilson International Center, Asia Program Occasional Papers #79, February 25, 1998.

"New Perspectives on the Qing Frontier." In Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Jonathan N. Lipman and Randall Stross, eds. Remapping China. Stanford University Press, 1996.

"1759-1860 nian Xinjiang baiyin shengmingxian" [Xinjiang's silver lifeline between 1759 and 1860], in Ma Dazheng et. al, eds., Xiyu kaocha yu yanjiu [Exploration and research on the "Western Regions"]. Urumchi: Xinjiang renmin chubanshe, 1994.

"A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong's Court: The Meanings of the Fragrant Concubine." Journal of Asian Studies 53:2 (May 1994).

"Special Report: Spotlight on the Silk Road." Archaeology, July/August 1993.

"The Qing Trade with the Kazakhs in Yili and Tarbagatai, 1759-1852." Central and Inner Asian Studies Vol VII (1992).

"1880-1930 nian Huizu shangren yu Zhongguo bianjiang diqu de yangmao maoyi" [Hui merchants and wool trade in China's border regions, 1880-1930], Gansu minzu yanjiu [Researches on Gansu Minorities], No. 4, 1989.


Reviews and research notes

Review of Mark Elliott, The Manchu Way, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies vol. 62, no. 2 (Dec. 2002): 468-79.

Review of John Larner. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. In American Historical Review Feb. 2002, pp. 271-272,

Review of Pamela Kyle Crossley, A Translucent Mirror. In American Historical Review, June, 2001, pp. 953-954.

Review of Joanna Waley-Cohen, The Sextants of Beijing, in ChinaNow, 23 September 1999 (www.ChinaNow.com).

Review of Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi, in Central Asia Monitor 1999:2:18-20.

Review of Linda Benson and Ingvar Svanberg, China’s Last Nomads: the History and Culture of China’s Kazaks. M.E. Sharpe, 1998. In Journal of Asian Studies 58:1 (Feb. 1999).

Review of Colin Mackerras, China’s Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration since 1912, in Journal of Asian Studies 56:4 (Nov. 1997).

Review of Robert A. Bickers, ed., Ritual and diplomacy: The Macartney Mission to China, 1792-1794, in Etudes Chinoises (1995).

Review of Doak Barnett, China's Far West: Four Decades of Change, in The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 1994.

"Commerce and Qing Colonial Xinjiang." Chinese Business History 5:1 (Fall 1994).

Review of Burton Pasternak and Janet W. Salaff, Cowboys and Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia in Contemporary Sociology 23:4 (July 1994).

"The Gansu Provincial Library: a Key Resource for Xibei Studies." China Exchange News, Autumn 1991.


Other publications

"Chiles on the Silk Road." Chile Pepper Magazine, December 1993.

"Why Islam Troubles China Too," (with Madhulika Sikka). World Monitor Magazine, April 1991.

"Setting William Buckley Straight on China." Opinion, The Providence Journal, 5 January 1985.

"Greece" and "Turkey" sections in Let's Go Europe and Let's Go Greece. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1985 editions.