KUBLAI KHAN
Book ID/图书代码： 13160005B11816
English Summary/英文概要： "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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 柯勒律治的诗歌让我们再次重温了一代君王忽必烈•韩的风采。但是传奇故事背后的真实故事将比我们想象得更加奇妙。他从他祖父那里继承了历史上第二大的领土，他立刻将其进一步扩大，成为前所未有的世界第一大帝国，领土从中国到伊拉克，从西伯利亚到阿富汗。他的私人领域占了整个亚洲的百分之六十，是世界总陆地面积的五分之一。西方国家初识忽必烈是因为马可波罗。忽必烈并不是生来就注定是统治者，但他紧紧地抓住机会，在他40多岁中年时即掌握了实权。他继承了祖父统治全世界的心愿，但是，他不同于他的祖父的是他看到中国是掌权的关键而不是蒙古，并建立了联邦政府。运用中国富饶的资源，和他独到的眼光，他开创了一个自罗马颠覆以来最伟大的国家，他给予中国现代疆域，为中国的繁荣奠定了坚实的基础。(Stella)
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About the Author/作者介绍： John Man 是一位历史学家兼旅行作家，他对蒙古有独特的兴趣。他在牛津学习研究生课程科学史，在蒙古学习东方及非洲研究。他的作品 GOBI: TRACKING THE DESERT是三十年代英国第一部此类型的作品。他也是THE ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000的作者，他的作品还包括ALPHA BETA，一部关于罗马字母根源的著作；THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION，一部有关印刷术的起源和影响的著作。
John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford , the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His GOBI: TRACKING THE DESERT (Weidenfeld, 1997) was the first book on the subject in English since the 1920s. He is also the author of THE ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000, (Penguin 1999), ALPHA BETA (Headline, 2000) on the roots of the Roman alphabet, THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION (Headline 2002) on the origins and impact of printing, and GENGHIS KHAN.
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