Dear Colleagues, Cho Wonhee, another graduate student, has joined the listserv. This time, I'll just quote: I am currently a Ph. D. student in the history department of Yale University, and here my graduate school adviser is Professor Valerie Hansen. I have received my M.A. from the Asian History Department at Seoul National University (South Korea), with a M. A. thesis titled "Yuan Tax Exemption Policy in Religious Groups: Practice and Policy" (in Korean). I am interested in the Yuan, especially not simply as one of Chinese Dynasties but as a part of the whole "Mongol Empire" which covered the whole Eurasian Steppe. Thus I am also interested in the Mongol rule of Central Asia and the Middle East, and both consider myself as a Chinese historian but also as one interested in Central Asia. I hope (as I am still working on my language for Persian and Arabic) to cover more than simply the Yuan dynasty for my Ph.D. dissertation, but I still have not decided exactly how much I can do with my interest, limited time, and language capabilities. Michael