Eric Boudot is an independent scholar based in Beijing and Kaili. Educated at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, he has lived in China since 1984, and is a leading specialist in the cultures and textiles of China’s minority peoples in the Southwest. He is the author of several books and articles on the textiles of the Southwestern region.
Chris Buckley is an independent scholar based in Beijing. He was educated at Balliol College and Wolfson College in Oxford, where he received his D. Phil in Physical Chemistry. He has lived in China since 1995. His current interest is the study of cultural diversity in Asia using quantitative techniques. He is the author of Tibetan Furniture (Thames and Hudson).
