Khubilai Khan (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Morris Rossabi
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1215-1294
- Setting: Mongolia, China, and other Asian areas
- Principal Characters: Khubilai Khan, Arigh Boke, Chinggis Khan, Marco Polo
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Asia or Asians, Rulers, Conquest, China or Chinese people, Thirteenth century, Land settlement
- Locales: China, Mongolia
In the English-speaking world, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem “Kubla Khan” has immortalized the founder of the Mongol Dynasty:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Coleridge aside, Khubilai Khan was a significant historical figure. Among his accomplishments were the conquest of Southern China, the establishment of a “foreign” dynasty over all China, the forging of cultural and economic links with Europe,...
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