Lecture Explores ‘Genghis Khan, Khubilai Khan and the Silk Roads’

By Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations

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Posted 10-19-09

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Dr. Morris Rossabi, a noted scholar of the history of China and Central Asia, will speak on “Genghis Khan, Khubilai Khan and the Silk Roads” Wednesday, Oct. 28.

The 4:30 p.m. lecture is free and open to the public. The event will be held in the Virginia Dare Room in the Alumni House.

Rossabi, a professor at Columbia University, will discuss how Genghis Khan and Khubilai Khan, as leaders of the Mongol Empire, promoted trade throughout Eurasia during their rule and how the Silk Road flourished during their 13th and 14th century empire.

An accomplished scholar, Rossabi is the author of several books, including “Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists,” “Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times” and “China and Inner Asia.” He also edited “Governing China's Multi-Ethnic Frontiers” and contributed to several volumes of the Cambridge History of China. Rossabi has helped to organize exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

Rossabi’s lecture is sponsored by the UNCG International and Global Studies Program.