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.
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Do any of the Xanadu Houses - a series of early computerised houses built in the US - still survive?Xanadu was a reference to the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty of China, mentioned in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan: 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure-dome decree.' ...
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Gatlinburg's 'futurific' Xanadu House wowed tourists and enraged locals. Now it's long gone"Xanadu's appearance, many residents feel, is a far cry from the 'stately pleasure dome' celebrated in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Khan,'" the News Sentinel reported in June 13 ...
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