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- The Summer Capital
- Layout & Buildings
- A Host to Important Events
- Described by Marco Polo
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Legacy
In the 13th century, the Mongol Empire ruled most of Asia and their capital was moved from Karakorum (Qaraqorum) in Mongolia to Xanadu in northeast China in 1263. Kublai Khan's first name for the new capital was Kaiping, but he then renamed it Xanadu/Shangdu, meaning 'Upper Capital' in 1273 when the capital was moved again, this time to Daidu (aka ...
The khan himself shunned his nomadic roots and, unlike his grandfather, the Mongol Empire's founder Genghis Khan (r. 1206-1227), he decided he had had enough of living in yurt tents and instead had a fine palace built. The city, designed by Kublai's Chinese advisor Liu Bingzhong (1216-1274), was also given earth circuit walls and towers, creating t...
The city frequently hosted great feasts and hunting parties but was an important host in other areas, too. In 1260 it had hosted a meeting of the Mongol tribal chiefs, akurultai, to officially proclaim Kublai the Great Khan or 'universal ruler' of the Mongol Empire. In 1275 the Great Khan called another kurultai at Xanadu, this time to decide how t...
The Venetian explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled across Asia and served at Kublai Khan's court between c. 1275 and 1292. On his return to Europe, Marco wrote of his experiences in his book The Travels of Marco Polo or Travels (Description of the World), first circulated c. 1298. In Book 1, chapter 57 of this extraordinary work, Marco describe...
Perhaps the most famous work today of the English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) but another of his critically acclaimed poems isKubla Khan (written in 1797, published in 1816), in which he, too, describes Xanadu (although not from any personal experience). The poem is the origin of that now m...
Today the site of Xanadu is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, and there are ruins and remains of the foundations of palaces, temples, walls, tombs, a canal, and waterways. Xanadu, though, really exists with far greater clarity in the imagination than it does in the reality of ruins. Both Polo and Coleridge's works contributed immeasurably ...
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Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu , the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Khubilai Khaan, grandson of Genghis Khaan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan
Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The film stars Olivia Newton-John , Michael Beck , and Gene Kelly in his final film role.
The Site of Xanadu is the site of a grassland capital characteristic of cultural fusion, witnessing clashes and mutual assimilation between the nomadic and agrarian civilisations in northern Asia. Located on the southeast edge of the Mongolian plateau, it was the first capital (1263-1273) of Kublai Khan and later the summer capital (1274-1364 ...
Aug 8, 1980 · Xanadu: Directed by Robert Greenwald. With Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan. A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
