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Article: Exhibit doesn't quite capture Khan's `Legacy'.(Arts)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 9, 1996
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea. . .
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-inspired, apocalyptic "Kubla Khan" vividly imaged the visionary 13th-century ruler as powerful, but about to meet his downfall. Kublai conquered China and founded its Yuan dynasty. But even before him, his grandfather Chinggis (Ghengis) Khan had ruthlessly conquered north China and large parts of Central Asia. It was the beginning of the Mongol hordes' construction of the largest land empire in history.
Considering the Mongols' ...