Dilnoza Duturaeva is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include Qarakhanid and Qara Khitai studies, Sino-Turkic relations in the pre-Mongol period, cross-cultural contacts between China and Central Asia. She received her PhD in History from the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences in 2011. She conducted research at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (2008-2009), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010), University of Nanjing (2012-2013) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sinology of the University of Bonn (2015-2018). Duturaeva’s recent publications: 1. Duturaeva, Dilnoza. “Qarakhanid Envoys to Song China,” Journal of Asian History 52, 2 (2018): 179-208; 2. Duturaeva, Dilnoza. “Cengtan and Fulin: The Saljuqs in Chinese Sources,” Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World 15 (2017): 29-48; 3. Duturaeva, Dilnoza. “Between the Silk and Fur Roads: The Qarakhanid Diplomacy and Trade,” Orientierungen: Zeitschrift zur Kultur Asiens 28 (2016): 173-212.