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Victor Cunrui Xiong
Victor Cunrui Xiong 熊存瑞 is Professor of History at Western Michigan University, lie is the author of [Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: His Life, Times, and Legacy (SUNY 2005), Sui-Tang Chang 'an: A Study in the Urban History of Medieval China (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000), and more than twenty articles on premodern Chinese history. He was editor of the journal Early Medieval China (1994–1999) and is now finishing up A Historical Dictionary of Medieval China (Scarecrow Press).