The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo’s text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?
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‘A lucid, lively account supported by many useful and evocative illustrations.’ (Independent on Sunday )
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Jonathan Clements is the author of Confucius: A Biography, The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs, and Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. He studied Chinese and Japanese at the University of Leeds. His biography of Mao was also published in the Life&Times series.
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