Marco Polo and His World
About This Novel
As an early Westerner who recorded Asian features in detail, Marco Polo's name is well-known in China, and his book "The Travels of Marco Polo" has influenced the exchange process between Eastern and Western civilizations. This book does not stop at retelling the legendary experience of Marco Polo, but takes a different approach, taking "The Travels of Marco Polo" as the main line of research, combining multiple historical materials, and striving to expand the depth of history behind it. The author also uses a multi-dimensional narrative technique to extend the focus from Marco Polo's personal experiences to the life stories of a Chinese painter, an Indian poet and a Byzantine princess, vividly recreating the Eurasian world that was unprecedentedly connected and culturally diverse due to the Mongol conquest. The book's language is simple and clear, and its perspective is novel and unique. It has important enlightenment significance for people's understanding of the history of exchanges between the East and the West.
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