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Marco Polo's Description of Quinsai1)

Marco Polo's Description of Quinsai1) MARCO POLO'S DESCRIPTION OF QUINSAI1) BY A. C. MOULE Marco Polo was the son of a Venetian merchant, and with his father and uncle he spent the last quarter of the thirteenth century travelling or resident in Asia and two thirds of that time in China. In 1298, after his return to Europe, he caused to be written his famous book Le Divisiment cl,ozc Of the 2B2 chapters of the book the longest is wholly devoted to the Chinese city of Quinsai, which also occupies a second much shorter chapter and part of a third, altogether about a twenty-fifth part of the whole book. Quinsai has been correctly identified since the days of Martini (c. 1650) with 1JL §)j Hang-chou 2), ca,pital of Ch?-chiang province and from 1139 till 1276 the makeshift but very splendid metro- polis of the Southern Sung dynasty. When I say splendid, I have 107 no doubt that it was extremely luxurious, elaborate, refined, and beautiful; but it was a splendour of a different sort from that which we sometimes associate with the East, with little of the magni- ficence of colossal size or vast space, or of the imperishable massiveness of sculptured granite. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Marco Polo's Description of Quinsai1)

Moule, A.C.
T'oung Pao , Volume 33 (1): 105 – Jan 1, 1937
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© 1937 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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MARCO POLO'S DESCRIPTION OF QUINSAI1) BY A. C. MOULE Marco Polo was the son of a Venetian merchant, and with his father and uncle he spent the last quarter of the thirteenth century travelling or resident in Asia and two thirds of that time in China. In 1298, after his return to Europe, he caused to be written his famous book Le Divisiment cl,ozc Of the 2B2 chapters of the book the longest is wholly devoted to the Chinese city of Quinsai, which also occupies a second much shorter chapter and part of a third, altogether about a twenty-fifth part of the whole book. Quinsai has been correctly identified since the days of Martini (c. 1650) with 1JL §)j Hang-chou 2), ca,pital of Ch?-chiang province and from 1139 till 1276 the makeshift but very splendid metro- polis of the Southern Sung dynasty. When I say splendid, I have 107 no doubt that it was extremely luxurious, elaborate, refined, and beautiful; but it was a splendour of a different sort from that which we sometimes associate with the East, with little of the magni- ficence of colossal size or vast space, or of the imperishable massiveness of sculptured granite.

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Published: Jan 1, 1937

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