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His claim of being a messenger of Khan to the Roman Catholic Pope also is dubious. Polo’s credentials are not corroborated with historical documents. But there is “absolutely no record of Marco Polo in the Yangzhou gazetteers” (p.

Polo claimed to have lived in Qublai Khan’s court (1260–94 C.E.) as a guest for seventeen years and also to have been commissioned by the Khan to travel all over China before being appointed as the Governor of the City of Yangzhou. Little is known of Marco Polo’s ancestry beyond the generation of his father and uncles. Marco Polo’s claim of being associated with the family of rich traders was dubious and suspect.

In fact, the Polos were small-time merchants who did not make any mark on the city of Venice. To begin with, the legendary wealth of the Polo family from Venice was a myth. Providing more than twenty pages of documentary evidence in the form of notes and bibliography, Wood argues that Marco Polo was the biggest fraud in world history and that he never went to China.

Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Artsĭownload PDF BOULDER, COLORADO WESTVIEW PRESS, 1996įrances Wood has produced this fascinating book which basically debunks the myth surrounding Marco Polo and his Description of the World.

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