Mirabilia Descripta by Charles Mckew Parr

Mirabilia Descripta by Charles Mckew Parr

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Morris Rossabi is a historian and professor of China and Central Asia who teaches courses in Inner Asian and East Asian history at the City University of New York and Columbia University. He is the author of Herder to Statesman; The Mongols and Global History; Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists; and Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, which was chosen as a main selection by the History Book Club. He is also a contributor to several volumes of the Cambridge History of China. He received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia and was named distinguished visiting scholar at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan, from May through July of 2010. In 2006, he was named chair of the Arts and Culture Program of the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros. In addition, he has helped to organize exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The author of numerous articles and speeches, he travels extensively around North America and to Central Asia and Mongolia, where he lectures on Mongolian and East Asian history. He currently resides in New York City.
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ISBN 13 9781017953572
ISBN 10 1017953570
Title Mirabilia Descripta
Author Charles McKew Parr
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Legare Street Press
Year published 2022-10-27
Number of pages 98
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