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(H/B) MARCO POLO
IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE QUESTION: DID MARCO POLO GO TO CHINA? Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Museum, declared that he didn't, in her 1996 book of the same name. She cast doubt on Polo's credibility, her argument being largely based not on what Polo wrote about in his epic thirteenth century travelogue, but what he left out. Wood questioned why he had not included such notable Chinese accomplishments and customs as book printing, bound feet, calligraphy, cormorant fishing, tea-drinking, chopsticks and the Great Wa...
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