After the global shock wave caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, "Le Figaro" explores the complex relationships in history between China, fascinating and source of fantasies, and the West. From Marco Polo's trip to the court of the Grand Khan to the meeting between Mao and Nixon, through the opium war.
A series of a thousand hunters, armed with hawks and hawks, drop their raptors on pheasants, cranes and other birds. Installed in his portable royal castle, flanked by his closest advisers, the sovereign, Kubilai Khan, took the Venetian merchant to his service and attended this hunt without moving. "The king stands in a small wooden house carried by four elephants and covered with lion skins, and gilded inside," says Marco Polo. The first great European traveler on the Silk Road, Marco Polo describes the wanderings on the mythical path of the Great Mongol Khan, who became Emperor of China and founder of the Yuan dynasty.
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