Margaret Kartomi is Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, in Melbourne. She is author of numerous publications on

Klaas Stutje is a post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. His research experience covers the history of Dutch colonial prison

Chris Shepherd researches the indigenous populations of Peru and East Timor and their encounter with Western science, development and, now, colonialism and ethnography.  

Patrick Fuliang Shan is a professor of history at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches Chinese history, East Asian history, and world history.  

Dilip Barooah is a textile technologist with more than 35 years experience in the industry. His silk company works with more the 50,000 people, mostly

An accomplished sericulturist, Rie Koustrup contributed the bulk of the illustrations to this volume.  

Ole Zethner is a retired international entomologist, agro-forester and agricultural and tree-planting development advisor. He has long promoted sericulture and both planned and evaluated thousands

Desley Goldston is an independent scholar and educator who has travelled widely and lived many years in Asia, including a decade in Laos. Taking advantage