Preface, Remarks on Transcription and Spelling, CENTRAL ASIA RESEARCH - A BACKGROUND, Nordic Research on Central Asia: Past, Present and Future, Marginal Centrality: Central Asian Studies on the Eve of a New Millennium, ARCHAEOLOGY, Chinese Excavations at Turfan, The Sino-Swedish Expedition to Yar-tonguz in 1994, RELIGION, Superscribing the Hegemonic Image of Chinggis Khan in the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, 'They only weep ...': Stories about Tibetan Travellers to the Other Worlds, LANGUAGE, Regional Aspects of the Turkic Influence on Mongolian, Remarks on the Mongolian Vowel System, Towards a Sociolinguistic History of Sinkiang, POLITICAL ASPECTS, Russia and Post-Soviet Central Asia: Reintegration Ahead?, Democracy versus Stability in Kazakstan, War and Change in Afghanistan: Reflections on Research Priorities, Biographical Notes on the Contributors