Paul D. Buell, is an independent scholar, translator, and editor living in Seattle. He is the author of more than 180 books and articles, He specializes in the institutional and cultural history of the Mongolian Empire, the comparative history of human and veterinary medicine, modern Central Asia.

Francesca Fiaschetti, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, HUJI. She specialized in Sinology and Mongolian Studies and has published various articles on diplomacy in East Asia under Mongol rule, the political ideology of the Yuan dynasty, and representations of identity and ethnicity in East Asia.