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Khubilai Khan His Life and Times by Morris Rossabi

Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history’s most renowned figures. Here, for the first time, is an English language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch.

He brings to life the man who attempted to rule the known world, a man first immortalized by Marco Polo, a visitor to Khubilai’s court. The author shows Khubilai’s significance as one of the first of the pastoral nomadic leaders to administer an empire rather than merely conquer and exploit his subjects.

He continued the Mongols’ military expansionism, conquering Southern China and attacking Japan and Southeast Asia, but he sought to rule as Emperor of China and Khan of Khans of the Mongol domains. In this effort, he recruited and used an international corps of advisers, including Chinese Confucians, Persian Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and European Christians. Khubilai’s reign witnessed remarkable achievements. Europe and Asia were linked culturally and economically as they had never been before.

He constructed magnificent cities, patronized painters and playwrights, had a new written script developed, introduced Muslim astronomy and medicine to China, built an observatory and Persian style hospitals, extended the Grand Canal of China to Peking, and promoted trade through the use of paper money and improvements in transport and communications.

Though renowned for his achievements, Khubilai was also a fascinating individual with close family ties. Rossabi emphasizes the role of Khubilai’s mother and his favorite wife on his career and also describes the important relationship between Khubilai and Marco Polo.

This biography will attract historians and students of Asia, but it will also interest those readers long curious about this intriguing figure.

Features;

• Folio Society Second Printing No. 1279.7
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2005
• Metallic Buckram Hardback, 339 pp
• With contemporary miniatures, paintings plus maps
• Size 240 x 175mm, 1.3kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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