China

Marco Polo in China-Or Not
Did Marco Polo Go to China? by Frances Wood
Review by: D. O. Morgan
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Jul., 1996), pp. 221-225
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
Ireland
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