Morris rossabi biography

Morris Rossabi was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
Professor Rossabi is a historian of China and Central and Inner Asia.
Born in Egypt, he conducts research in East Asian and Middle Eastern languages and has written four chapters in the definitive Cambridge History of China.

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About the Author

Morris Rossabi, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of History at City University of New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He is the author of several celebrated works on Asian history and has collaborated on exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Includes the names: M Rossabi, Moris Rosabi

Image credit: Morris Rossabi. Photo from the faculty pages of Queens College CUNY.

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Birthdate

1941

Gender

male

Nationality

USA

Birthplace

Alexandria, Egypt

Places of residence

New York, New York, USA

Occupations

professor
historian

Organizations

Queens College, City University of New York
Columbia University
China Institute. School of Chinese Studies

Short biography

Morris Rossabi is Distinguished Professor of history at the City University of New York and Columbia University. [retrieved from Amazon 1/29/2012]

Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1941, Morris Rossabi is the author of numerous books. Visiting professor of East Asian and C

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Associate Adjunct Professor

Office Hours: T 9-10 AM
Email: mr63@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University (’70)

Classes Taught

HSEA UN3898 The Mongols in History
HIST GR6999 Graduate Seminar – History of the Mongols

Research Interests

Asian History

Professor Rossabi is a historian of China and Central and Inner Asia. He teaches courses on Inner Asian, East Asian, and Chinese history at Columbia. During the 2008–2009 academic year, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia. He and Mary Rossabi are involved in an oral history of 20th and 21st century Mongolia, which has led to the publication of Socialist Devotees and Dissenters; A Herder, a Trader, and a Lawyer; and The Practice of Buddhism in Kharkhorin and its Revival (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2010, 2012, and 2013).

Author or editor of 25 books, he has helped organize exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. He was on the advisory board of the Project on Central

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Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

March 21, 2021

A book on a Mongol conqueror should have more zap

OK, so maybe Morris Rossabi was right not to speak of this great Khan as "a most excellent barbarian" as if he emerged from some "Sandal and Vandal" Hollywood epic. But, this historical figure lived amidst some of the most colorful, interesting times (not to mention extremely bloody ones). A little more pizzazz could have livened up the biography of an undoubtedly important character in world history. Rossabi's book is competent, it is scholarly, it is well-organized, it is impressively wide-reaching in its use of English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese sources (and the author seems to have some knowledge of Mongol and Tibetan too). Nobody could fault such a book for incompleteness. Certainly I am not qualified to spot any inaccuracies. We learn the antecedents of Khubilai Khan, how he emerged from the welter of contestants for the top job, how he organized the bureaucracy, picked his advisors, dealt with the various religions and their factions, how he conq