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Author : James C. Y. Watt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780300166569
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.
Author : James C. Y. Watt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1588394026
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Communications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and society
ISBN : OCLC:682277641
Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472136541
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coastline. His armies conquered the Asian kingdom of Dali and brought down the last defenders of imperial China. Khubilai Khan presided over a glorious Asian renaissance, attracting emissaries from all across the continent, and opening his civil service to 'men with coloured eyes' - administrators from the far west. His life and times encompassed the legends of Prester John, the pinnacle of the samurai (and, indeed, the Mongols), and the travels of Marco Polo.
Author : John Man
Publisher : Random House
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446486153
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the world has ever seen, extending his rule from China to Iraq, from Siberia to Afghanistan. His personal domain covered sixty-percent of all Asia, and one-fifth of the world's land area. The West first learnt of this great Khan through the reports of Marco Polo. Kublai had not been born to rule, but had clawed his way to leadership, achieving power only in his 40s. He had inherited Genghis Khan's great dream of world domination. But unlike his grandfather he saw China and not Mongolia as the key to controlling power and turned Genghis' unwieldy empire into a federation. Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it today. He gave China its modern-day borders and his legacy is that country's resurgence, and the superpower China of tomorrow.
Author : Morris Rossabi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520261327
Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history’s most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This 20th anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining how twenty years of scholarly and popular portraits of Khubilai have shaped our understanding of the man and his time.
Author : Andrew Vietze
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499463569
Grandson of the feared Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan inherited a vast empire and then doubled its size. This biography examines how Kublai’s childhood influenced his later embrace of Chinese culture as emperor of China. After defeating his brother Ariq Böke in the Toluid Civil War, Kublai became Great Khan. Thanks to the stability of his rule and the sponsorship of his administration, the Mongol Empire saw economic, social, and cultural advancements that were well ahead of much of the world.
Author : James Delgado
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : China
ISBN : 0099532581
After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan the conquest of China and inheriting the world s largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan. He commanded an immense armada, the largest fleet the world had ever seen a
Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781553658191
A gripping account of the seafaring adventures of the Mongol Empire under Khubilai Khan. In 1279, off China's southeast coast, Khubilai Khan routed the Song navy and completed the grand dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khan -- the conquest of China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen, stretching from the China Sea to the plains of Hungary. Having also inadvertently inherited the world's largest navy -- more than seven hundred ships -- the Mongols began audacious attacks on Japan, Vietnam and Java. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai had squandered his massive fleet, and the Mongols were a spent maritime force. Considered for centuries to be little more than legend, the story of the Mongols' fleet has finally been confirmed. Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has dived with the Japanese team studying the remains of the Khan's lost fleet at Takashima. Using original sources as diverse as actual sunken ships, land excavations, temple inscriptions, hand-painted scrolls and historical and literary records from China, Japan and Vietnam, Delgado takes the reader on an exciting history of Khubilai Khan's great Mongol navy, whose rise and fall presaged the great fleets of the fifteenth-century Ming Dynasty, made famous in the best-seller 1421. A long and bitter struggle to conquer Japan led to two massive naval invasions, in 1274 and 1281. The struggle entered the realm of legend when the Khan's fleet was supposedly destroyed by a "divine wind" or kamikaze. Delgado has dived with the Japanese archaeologists studying the remains of the lost fleet at Takashima, and explains how hasty preparations, a poorly led force, and inferior tactics led the Khan to squander his massive numerical and technological advantages. Retreating from Japan, Kublai Khan turned his attention to Southeast Asia. Again, the Khan lost his advantage when the Vietnamese lured his navy into the delta of the Mekong River. As the water fell with the tide, large wooden stakes impaled the Mongol ships and the Vietnamese emerged from the shadows to destroy the soldiers in a rain of arrows and fire. The Mongol dream of ruling the waves was over.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Denise Patry Leidy,Donna K. Strahan
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist sculpture
ISBN : 9781588393999
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520083008
Traces the history of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan and his descendants, describes their military successes, and discusses the Mongol influence on Europe
Author : Morris Rossabi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520945364
Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history’s most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This 20th anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining how twenty years of scholarly and popular portraits of Khubilai have shaped our understanding of the man and his time.
Author : John Man
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448154647
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia. Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology, justifying further expansion. Kublai doubled the empire's size until, in the late 13th century, he and the rest of Genghis’s ‘Golden Family’ controlled one fifth of the inhabited world. Along the way, he conquered all China, gave the nation the borders it has today, and then, finally, discovered the limits to growth. Genghis's dream of world rule turned out to be a fantasy. And yet, in terms of the sheer scale of the conquests, never has a vision and the character of one man had such an effect on the world. Charting the evolution of this vision, John Man provides a unique account of the Mongol Empire, from young Genghis to old Kublai, from a rejected teenager to the world’s most powerful emperor.
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429980626
We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted business as merchants.Marco Polo's travels from Venice to the exotic and distant East, and his epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives?Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China? tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant, the preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history, and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth.
Author : Shane McCausland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0824851455
The Mongol Century explores the visual world of China's Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), the spectacular but relatively short-lived regime founded by Khubilai Khan, regarded as the pre-eminent khanate of the Mongol empire. This book illuminates the Yuan era – full of conflicts and complex interactions between Mongol power and Chinese heritage – by delving into the visual history of its culture, considering how Mongol governance and values imposed a new order on China's culture and how a sedentary, agrarian China posed specific challenges to the Mongols' militarist and nomadic lifestyle. Shane McCausland explores how an unusual range of expectations and pressures were placed on Yuan culture: the idea that visual culture could create cohesion across a diverse yet hierarchical society, while balancing Mongol desires for novelty and display with Chinese concerns about posterity. Although in recent years exhibitions have begun to open up the inherent paradoxes of Yuan culture, this is the first book in English to adopt a comprehensive approach. It incorporates a broad range of visual media of the East Asia region to reconsider the impact Mongol culture had in China, from urban architecture and design to tomb murals and porcelain, and from calligraphy and printed paper money to stone sculpture. Fresh and invigorating, The Mongol Century explores, in fascinating detail, the visual culture of this brief but captivating era of East Asian history.