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Ruth W. Dunnell is the James P. Storer Professor of Asian History at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. She specializes in the history of China and its Inner Asian neighbors in the 11th to 14th centuries, and has published extensively on one of those neighbors, the Tangut state of Western Xia (Xi Xia, 1038-1227), in the conquest of which Chinggis Khan met his end.