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Kublai Khan
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Four travelers wrote about Kublai Khan between 1884 and 1943. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1884–1943
Under a Lucky StarRoy Chapman Andrews
Genghis Khan's grandson, founder of the Yuan dynasty and Mongol emperor of China — the 'Kubla Khan' of legend, whose memory still clung to the Mongolia Andrews knew.
…Marco Polo traveled over it on his trips for Kublai Khan.Listen from here · chapter 14, 2:13And on the plains near Yung-Chang where we camped, one of Kublai Khan's generals, Nestardin, he says, fought a great battle with the King of Burma in…Listen from here · chapter 14, 2:44 - 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty, who completed the Mongol conquest of China and whose court Marco Polo described.
…ever seen up to the book on Marco Polo’s seventeen-year visit to Kublai Khan in the thirteenth century are accounts of events written by political enemies of the…Listen from here · chapter 8, 0:23And when Hulagu, the grandson of Genghis, represented his cousin Kublai as administrator of Syria he issued an edict to the effect that every religious sect…Listen from here · chapter 8, 21:54 - 1902
Journeys in Mongolia
Genghis' grandson, founder of the Yuan dynasty and emperor of a Mongol-ruled China. He built both Cambaluc (Peking) as his winter capital and Shang-tu as his summer one — the 'Xanadu' of legend.
…And what more appropriate as a base for travel in Mongolia than Kublai’s city, Khanbaligh or Cambaluc, the “Great Court,” whence a Mongol governed the mightiest…Listen from here · chapter 2, 5:46…a Chinese traveller quoted by Dr. Bushell, who went in the suite of Kublai to Shang-tu about A.D. 1260, mentions “the new city of Huan-chou” as being 45 li from…Listen from here · chapter 4, 9:09 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
Grandson of Jenghiz Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty, remembered here as the patron of the lama Paspa and a visitor to the shrines around Karakorum.
…Khans, Batur Hun Taigi and Gushi; the proud bequests of Jenghiz and Kublai Khan; the clerical reactionary psychology of the Lamas; the mystery of Tibetan kings beginning…Listen from here · chapter 45, 0:58…to us, his successors, the ring of Jenghiz Khan, which was sent by Kublai Khan to Dalai Lama in return for the miracle shown by the Lama Turjo Gamba; also the top of…Listen from here · chapter 46, 3:42
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