From Yuan to modern China and Mongolia : : the writings of Morris Rossabi / / edited and introduced by Morris Rosabi.

• Superior document: The Writings of ; 6
• Author: Rossabi, Morris.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The Writings of 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (710 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This wide-ranging work, consisting of selected essays of Morris Rossabi, reflects the diverse interests of a leading scholar of China and Inner Asia. It encompasses the eras from the thirteenth century to the present, territories stretching from China to Mongolia to Central Asia and to the Middle Ea...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Notes on a Career
• 1. Ming Foreign Policy: The Case of Hami
• 2. Ming China and Turfan, 1406–1517
• 3. The Tea and Horse Trade with Inner Asia during the Ming
• 4. Ming Officials and Northwest China
• 5. Two Ming Envoys to Inner Asia
• 6. The Ming and Inner Asia
• 7. The “Decline” of the Central Asian Caravan Trade
• 8. Islam in China
• 9. The Muslims in the Early Yüan Dynasty
• 10. The Jews in China
• 11. Chinese Myths about the National Minorities: Khubilai Khan, a Case Study
• 12. Khubilai Khan and the Women in His Family
• 13. Kuan Tao-sheng: Woman Artist in Yuan China
• 14. An Embassy to the West
• 15. Paris, Bordeaux, Rome, and Return
• 16. The Legacy of the Mongols
• 17. The Development of Mongol Identity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• 18. A New Mongolia in a New World
• 19. Mongolia: A Peaceful Transition
• 20. Mongolia: Transmogrification of a Communist Party
• 21. Namkhainyambuu and the Changes in the Herding Economy of Mongolia
• 22. Sambuu and His Autobiography
• 23. Biographical Introduction
• 24. Introduction: The Silk Roads
• 25. Geography Along the Silk Roads
• 26. Ethnic Relations and Political History Along the Silk Roads
• 27. Islam in China
• 28. Bibliography of Morris Rossabi’s Writings
• Index.