Hui and Uyghur in Modern China: Two Muslim Groups

ACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Morris Rossabi (Columbia University)

Thursday, November 3, 2022 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, 325, Meeting Room A

After a survey of the origins and history of the Hui and the Uyghurs, the presentation will focus on the sometimes fraught relationship between the state and the Han (ethnic Chinese) and these two Islamic groups in China. It will emphasize the activities of the two group and the Chinese Communist policies toward them.

Morris Rossabi, (Ph.D. Columbia University) was born in Alexandria, Egypt and teaches Chinese and Mongolian history at the City University of New York and Columbia University. Author or editor of 28 books, including Khubilai Khan, Modern Mongolia, Voyager from Xanadu, China and the Uyghurs, From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia: The Writings of Morris Rossabi, and A History of China, as well as over a 100 book chapters and articles, he has collaborated on catalogs for art exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  He has traveled extensively and lectured in the Middle East, China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and Mongolia.  The National Mongolian University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2009, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia awarded him a Certificate of Merit in 2021.