Site of Xanadu (China)
Literature consulted (selection) Site of Xanadu Chang, S., ‘The morphology of walled capitals’, in Skinner, G.W. (ed), The City in Late Imperial China, Stanford University Press, (China) Stanford, California, 1977. No 1389 Dalrymple, W., In Xanadu a Quest, Flamingo, London, 1990. Grousset, R., Conqueror of the World, translated by Denis Sinor and Marian MacKellar, Oliver & Boyd, London, 1967. Official name as proposed by the State Party Ma, Y. (ed), China’s Minority Nationalities, Foreign Languages Site of Xanadu Press, Beijing, 1994. Location National Museum of Chinese History, Exhibition of Chinese Zhenglan Qi and Duolun County, Xilingol Meng History, Morning Glory Publishers, Beijing, 1998. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region The People's Republic of China Shatzman Steinhardt, N., Chinese Imperial City Planning, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990. Brief description Yule, H. (annotated translation), The Travels of Marco Polo, The remains of Kublai Khan’s legendary capital rise from (1903) revised by Henri Cordier (1920), B & R Samizdat broad grasslands at the south-eastern edge of the Express, Amazon Kindle edition. Mongolian Plateau. With hills to the north and river to the south, the Site of Xanadu follows feng shui principles and Technical Evaluation Mission is at the same time surrounded by hilltop shrines of the An ICOMOS technical evaluation mission visited the Mongolian culture. As the place from which the Yuan property from 7 to 10 August 2011. empire (1271-1368) was extended across the whole of China and most of the known world, Xanadu witnessed a Additional information requested and received century’s clashes and attempted assimilation between the from the State Party nomadic and agrarian civilisations in northern Asia.
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