About the Author

Denis Sinor is former president of the American Oriental Societ and was active in various national and international scholarly societies in which he held positions of high international importance.He authored eight books and more than one hunderd sixty articles in Hungarian, French, English and German, and edited fourteen books. Many of these were translated into other languages, including Russian and Chinese.He served as editor of the Journal of Asian History from its inception in 1967 to his death, and also for the Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series (over 174 volumes) and the Indiana University Oriental Series.