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Standing up to the Mongols
Chongqing :: China | 1 month ago
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About 90 km north of downtown Chongqing lies a suburban community called Hechuan. It might be a misnomer to call it a "community" as it is home to 1.5 million residents, a city of sizeable scale in itself...But a town of roughly 10,000 people made
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Following in the Khans' footsteps
Ulaanbaatar :: Mongolia | 3 months ago
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Marco Polo first introduced Kublai Khan and his empire to the West in the 13th century, while more recently a British author has devoted himself to the exploration of Mongolian history and culture for the past two decades. John Man, a historian and
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Taipei art exhibition celebrates 850th birthday of Genghis Khan
Taipei :: Taiwan | 5 months ago
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Taipei, Jan. 6 (CNA) A series of portraits of emperors and consorts in China 's Yuan Dynasty are currently on exhibition at National Palace Museum to mark the 850th birthday of the dynasty's first emperor Genghis Khan, the Taipei museum said recently.
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Travel guide: 'The Travels of Marco Polo' re-released
Hangzhou :: China | 5 months ago
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Font Resize Detroit Free Press "The Travels of Marco Polo" (Edited by Morris Rossabi, Sterling Signature, $40) If the New York Times best-seller list had been around in 1298, "The Travels of Marco Polo" would have been No...Back in the day, it also
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The land of topless minarets and headless little girls
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
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In Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities , a world traveler named Marco Polo describes the cities of a vast but crumbling empire to its ruler, Kublai Khan. Over time, the intricate descriptions of the cities begin to overlap until the khan slowly
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In search of the Kublai Khan's fleet
Quảng Ngãi :: Vietnam | 7 months ago
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Down to a sunless sea So wrote the opium-addicted 18th-century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge after a dream about the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. A grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai's realm stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea,
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China's favourite barbarian, Kublai Khan
Shanghai :: China | 8 months ago
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But invaders have sometimes been welcomed, in time, into the Chinese family...In the 13th Century, no-one knew how big the world was so it was not so wild for the Mongols to set off from the grassland with the idea that they were going to conquer all
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In Australia It Looks Like We're Doing More Sinking Than Swimming...And We're Not Just Talking About the Olympics
Shanghai :: China | 10 months ago
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Money, although most people don't view it as such, is technology...For example, archaeologists tell us that primitive societies used colored stones, seashells or pieces of bone as money. Then for much of human history (including now, depending where
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Xanadu added to UNESCO's World Heritage List
Shanghai :: China | 11 months ago
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Xanadu, a site in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has joined the World Heritage List...So far, there have been 42 properties, including 30 cultural ones, in China included on the list. Tong Mingkang, vice-director of the Chinese State
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An empire's downfall
Ulaanbaatar :: Mongolia | 12 months ago
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Conn Iggulden's Conqueror isn't the kind of plot many would find easy to follow; mainly because of its connection with the history of Mongolia. It is one of the few nations which had its glorious years but unfortunately somewhere during the middle of
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