On the other hand, although he used some Chinese in low positions in the government, he abolished the civil service exams, preferred to use Chinese in his bureaucracy and established separate rules ...

Ulan Bator (AFP) - Eight centuries after the ruler of the greatest land empire in history was born, descendants of the mighty Mongol Kublai Khan are a people divided between his homeland and the ...

The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer capital in northern China.

In Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan are sitting comfortably, the former regaling the latter with descriptions of the impossible places he has visited. Khan asks Polo ...

The dynasty was established by Kublai Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, who founded the Mongol Empire. Kublai twice attempted to invade Japan during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). Japanese and ...

Shadows” set for wide release in 2025, it looks as though feudal Japan is going to be on a lot of gamers’ minds this year.

On one of Marco Polo's journeys, he encountered a ruler who would remain etched in his memory for life. This leader wasn't just a warrior but a statesman, a visionary, and an empire builder.

Marco Polo, while the most famous today, was just one of many emissaries bridging Medieval Europe and the Mongol Empire.

In an historic shift, official business in Mongolia must now be conducted in both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian bichig script. The requirement was brought in on January 2 under a new dual ...

In a military history context, the term was first applied to a force of Mother Nature that saved Japan by destroying Kublai Khan’s would-be invading fleet of Mongols twice in the thirteenth century.

In his youth, the famed historical figure is left behind by his father at the court of Kublai Khan, the Khagan of the Mongol Empire and founder of the Yuan dynasty. The Khan takes Marco in as his ...