On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

Ildiko Beller-Hann is Associate Professor of Central Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She studied Turkish, Archaeology, and English at the Lórand Eötvös University in Budapest. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and her habilitation degree from the Humboldt University, Berlin. She has held positions at Newnham College, Cambridge, the University of Kent in Canterbury, and the Martin Luther University in Halle (Germany). Her main interests span the histories and societies, historical anthropology, social support networks, kinship, and oral and literate traditions of the Turkic-speaking peoples of Xinjiang, Turkey, and Central Asia.

Trine Brox is Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She studied Social Science at the University of Tromsø and Tibetology at the University of Copenhagen, where she received her Ph.D. Her academic focuses are contemporaneous issues in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora regarding the development of democracy, Tibetan elites in the PRC, exile governance, political movements, the configuration of religion and politics, conceptual history, and the multi-layered process of translation within and between cultures.