Beware! Beware! China.(China and history)(Shangdu)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 2, 2005 | Copyright information

All who heard should see them there

China is restoring its history, with a heavy hand

FOR CENTURIES the name has fuelled western fantasy about the exotic Orient. Some scholars believe Marco Polo may never even have made it there, as he claimed he did in the 13th century soon after the city was founded. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, certainly never had when he wrote, half a millennium later, of Kublai Khan's "stately pleasure dome". Until the late 1...

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