{"id":1114,"date":"2020-06-24T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/communications\/?page_id=1114"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:37:08","slug":"faculty-profile-morris-rossabi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/faculty-profile-morris-rossabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Profile Morris Rossabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name: <\/span><\/strong>Morris Rossabi
Title: <\/span><\/strong>Distinguished Professor
Department: <\/span><\/strong>History
Degree(s): <\/span><\/strong>PhD, Columbia University
Contact Information:<\/span><\/strong>
Phone: (718) 997-5382
Office: Powdermaker 352I
Email:\u00a0 Morris.Rossabi@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I\u2019ve been in some pretty remote areas\u2014China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan. I\u2019ve found tremendous differences in the people of these areas, but there are also a lot of commonalities.”
– Morris Rossabi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In his books and on foot, Morris Rossabi explores areas where \u201cthere are hardly any Western tourists,\u201d where \u201cthere is a very strong attachment to clan and tribe,\u201d and where the Silk Roads have become the hotly contested routes to oil and gas.<\/p>\n

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The scholar who ventures to Asia\u2019s innermost outposts wrote the definitive book on the first person known to have traveled from China to Europe, Rabban Sauma, in Voyager from Xanadu<\/em> (1992). Several of his acclaimed books showed the errors of\u00a0 Western thought about China and Mongolia. His research on Central and Inner Asia established the groundwork for academic study of these bypassed regions. Muslims, Mongols, and Manchus, Qing and Ming, commissars and emerging capitalists\u2014all are illuminated by this historian and linguist.<\/p>\n

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Rossabi came to the United States as a boy and by age 18 was already in graduate school. He has taught at QC since 1986, and delights in his \u201creally excellent\u201d students. In forums from the national media to teacher workshops, he advocates for public education about Asia.<\/p>\n

This spring, when he was part of QC\u2019s delegation to China to set up exchange agreements for students, Rossabi donned a shockingly vivid cap and gown to be awarded an honorary degree from the National University of Mongolia. \u201cOur conception of Mongols is associated with Genghis Khan, with savagery and brutality,\u201d he notes, but \u201cthey also brought the world together\u2014Marco Polo came to China during the Mongol era.\u201d<\/p>\n

On sabbatical for the 2009\u201310 academic year, Rossabi will go to Osaka, Japan, to organize an exhibit on Central Asian objects, then on to China to research its large Muslim population. \u201cOne place I\u2019d really like to visit is Iran, particularly Tabriz, the Mongol capital in the 13th-14th centuries,\u201d he sighs, realizing that some places quite likely will remain off-limits during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Book he recommends for understanding the East<\/strong>: The Orientalist<\/em> by Tom Reiss.<\/p>\n

Composers who move him<\/strong>: Mozart and J.S. Bach; he\u2019s paid homage to them in Salzburg and Leipzig<\/p>\n

Surprising fact<\/strong>: He was ranked among the top five Ping-Pong players under age 19 in New York. \u201cWhen I go to China, they don\u2019t think Westerners are able to play it,\u201d he laughs, \u201cso playing opens up a lot of doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Name: Morris Rossabi Title: Distinguished Professor Department: History Degree(s): PhD, Columbia University Contact Information: Phone: (718) 997-5382 Office: Powdermaker 352I Email:\u00a0 Morris.Rossabi@qc.cuny.edu “I\u2019ve been in some pretty remote areas\u2014China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan. I\u2019ve found tremendous differences in the people of these areas, but there are also a lot of commonalities.”- Morris Rossabi Student Profiles Alumni […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-1114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1114\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}