History Pinning down kublai khan remains a writer's xanadu, says Tom Holland

The Sunday Telegraph London | May 14, 2006| | Copyright

Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China

BY JOHN MAN

BANTAM PRESS, pounds 20, 383 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

'Better 50 years of Europe,' said Tennyson, 'than a cycle of Cathay.' He spoke with all the confidence of an Englishman living at the height of his country's power, but there was nothing novel in his conviction that China, in comparison to the ever-restless West, had essentially opted out of history.

The very first description of the country in European literature, that of Marco Polo in the 13th century, had conjured up the image of an empire so exotic as to ...

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