Dear Colleagues, Please join me in welcoming a new member to the listserv, WEN Xin (xwen0113@gmail.com ), who has provided the following self-introduction: I am a Ph.D. Student in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the history of western China (Gansu, Ningxia, western Mongolia) and eastern Central Asia in the post-Tang, pre-Yuan period. I am also interested in the ways various aspect of middle period history can be reevaluated through reading contemporary non-Chinese texts. My dissertation project, which I am starting now, will deal with the experience of traveling between China and Central Asia from the 9th to the 13th century Yours truly, Michael