Kashgar Revisited Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring

Ildikó Bellér-Hann (PhD 1989, habilitation 2005) is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her numerous publications on the anthropology and history of the Uyghur of Xinjiang include Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949 (Brill 2008).

Birgit N. Schlyter (PhD 1985) is Professor of Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University. She has published extensively in Turkic linguistics and is the editor of Gunnar Jarring's unpublished last manuscript, a comprehensive Uyghur-English dialect dictionary.

Jun Sugawara (MA 1992) is Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has published a dictionary and numerous articles on the history and language of Uyghurs, including A Concise Modern Uyghur-Japanese Dictionary (ILCAA 2009)