Marco Polo in China — or not

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-225

  Morgan, D O ^a  

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EID: 84962112954     PISSN: 13561863     EISSN: 14740591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1356186300007203     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. For a well-documented and persuasive, if perhaps to some extent overstated, argument to the effect that Marco Polo tells us a good deal more about Europe than about Asia in the late thirteenth century, seej. Critchley, Marco Polo's Book (Aldershot, 1992).
2. At least as far back as Sir Henry Yule's The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian, 3rd ed. (London, 1903), Introduction, pp. 110-12 [the first edition was published in 1871].
3. A. N. Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge, 1990); “The problem of the Great Wall of China”, HJAS, XL1I (1983), pp. 643-63.
4. See e.g. Professor T. H. Barrett's review of Wood: London Review of Books, vol. XVII, no. 23, 30 November 1995, p. 28.
5. Wood, p. 101.
6. Wood, p. 97.
7. Sunday Times, 22 October 1995, News Review, p. 5.
8. Howard S. Levy, The Lotus Lovers: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Footbinding in China (Buffalo, 1992: first published, perhaps less saleably, as Chinese Footbinding, New York, 1966), p. 46.
9. The Times, 20 October 1995, p. 21.
10. L. Olschki, Marco Polo's Asia (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1960), p. 130 and n. 11
11. C. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh: a Biography (Harmondsworth, 1977), p. 244. 1 and my own travelling companion, Richard Lawrence, became involved in some strikingly similar roadside conversations in much the same places forty years later. I am not, therefore, entirely convinced that Sykes's recollection was accurate.
12. Wood, p. 137.
13. See Wood, pp. 61, 100, and compare p. 107.
14. Wood, p. 2.
15. H. Franke, “Sino-Western contacts under the Mongol Empire”, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, VI (1966), p. 54. The article is reprinted in Franke's Variorum volume, China under Mongol Rule (Aldershot, 1994).
16. See Dr P. Jackson's review of Professor Beckingham's English translation of the fourth volume of The Travels of Ibn Battiita, below, pp. 262-5.