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Three Yuan Administrative Units in Marco Polo: Kinǰin Talas, Silingǰiu, and Kungčang

Atwood, Christopher P

Journal of Song-Yuan studies, 2020, Vol.49 (1), p.417-442 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Hsinchu: The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies

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  • Título:
    Three Yuan Administrative Units in Marco Polo: Kinǰin Talas, Silingǰiu, and Kungčang
  • Autor: Atwood, Christopher P
  • Assuntos: Buddhism ; Buddhists ; Christians ; Corroboration ; Grasslands ; Muslims ; Names ; Taoism ; Turkic languages
  • É parte de: Journal of Song-Yuan studies, 2020, Vol.49 (1), p.417-442
  • Descrição: Evincing remarkable powers of observation and memory, Polo supplies information about many places which are otherwise unknown.1 Yet, given the fact that his account was written with a ghost-writer, years and in some cases decades after he saw or first heard about the places described, only to be transmitted through careless and inexpert scribes, Polo's information itself is sufficiently problematic that corroboration from other sources is essential. For all of these reasons, western or southwestern Mongolia accords with Polo's description far better than any location in Xinjiang.14 But within that area, it would be hard to find any place that could be described as having "many cities and castles." The information in Table 2 suggests that in these sparsely inhabited regions, a day's journey averaged about 43.5 kilometers, which accords with Polo's "mile" being about a kilometer. [...]a vast territorial unit also could not have been entirely absent from the Mongol/Yuan dynastic records. Since the inhabitants of the area are not said to be Mongols, but rather mostly Buddhists/Daoists, with some Muslims and Turkic Christians of the Syriac rite, the administrative unit must also be [ Image omitted:
  • Editor: Hsinchu: The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies
  • Idioma: Inglês;Chinês
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