"Yuan dynasty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... In time the Yuan dynasty of Mongols passed away—their strength sapped by confinement to walled cities because their power was only on the tented field. Ser Marco Polo, that audacious traveller, never tires of telling of the magnificence of the Mongol Khans and their resplendent courts. ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... in Chapters and Sentences [1],' which was made the text book of the Classic at the literary examinations, by the fourth emperor of the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1312-1320), and from that time the name merely of the Treatise was retained in editions of the Li Chi. Neither text nor ancient commentary was given. Under the present dynasty it is not so. In ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) • James Legge |
