...Feng Chia-sheng Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 Venetian adventurer: being an account of the life and times and of the book of Messer Marco Polo . By Henry H. Hart . Stanford University Press; London : Oxford University Press , 1942 . xiv, 284 p. $3.50...

...Jacques Gernet Quinsai, With Other Notes on Marco Polo . By A. C. Moule . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1957 . xii, 92 . Illustrations, Appendix. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 270 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES lutionaries. Later...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Marco Polo: Venetian Adventurer . By Henry H. Hart . Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press , 1967 . xxviii, 306 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. $5.95. BOOK REVIEWS 923 BOOK NOTES Readings...

...Morris Rossabi Marco Polo . By Richard Humble . New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1975 . 232 pp. Notes, Index. $12.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 557 incorporates these throughout the entire book; Miller, in his notes, bibliography...

...James B. Crowley Abstract On July 7, 1937 a handful of Chinese and Japanese soldiers exchanged rifle-fire in the vicinity of the Marco Polo Bridge about thirty miles from Peking. This, minor fracas precipitated a sequence of events that soon propelled Japan into full-scale hostilities...

...Stanley L. Falk From the Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor. A Study of Japan's Entry into World War II . By David J. Lu . Washington, D. C. Public Affairs Press , 1961 . viii, 274 . References, Bibliography, Index. $4.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr. Marco Polo's precursors . By Leonardo Olschki . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press , 1943 . ix, 100 p. $1.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 1 P. 53, also pp. 90–91. On the priority of the Far East in the development...

...Bettine Birge Marco Polo's China: A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan . By Stephen G. Haw . London : Routledge , 2006 . 224 pp. $115.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 With the publication of Frances Wood's book Did Marco Polo Go...

...James T. C. Liu Abstract When the marco polo bridge incident occurred near peiping on july 7, 1937, japan was not prepared to launch a long-term war with china. on the contrary, she was hopeful that a little military pressure would result in a local settlement providing for North China autonomy...

... the general direction in which a solution is likely to be found. University of Connecticut E. G. BURROWS Venetian adventurer: being an account of the life and times and of the book of Messer Marco Polo. BY HENRY H. HART. Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1942. xiv, 284 p. $3.50...

... by the striking discoveries made in recent years, remains a classic of its kind, extremely well-written and with a sobriety of judgment characteristic of its author. Meanwhile, by a natural extension of interest, he had become engrossed in the problems relating to Marco Polo, and the discovery by Sir Percival...

..., 218, 231, 268-70) should inspire Americans to be worthy of his praise. His book should be recommended as delightful and illuminating reading for classes studying the Far East, as valuable and entertaining for the general reader. CARROLL B. MALONE Colorado College Marco Polo's precursors. BY LEONARDO...

... History of the Second World War; Hitlers Generals; Hitler's High Seas Fleet; Japanese High Seas Fleet; and Napoleon's Peninsular Marshals. He has not spent much time reading the major secondary accounts about Marco Polo (i.e., the works of Olschki, Pelliot, and Moule). But his book is entertaining...

... Charles James.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Bühler Georg. 1892 . “The Peheva Inscription from the Temple of Garibnath.” Epigraphica Indica . Vol. 1 . Calcutta : Thacker, Spink and Co . Critchley John. 1992 . Marco Polo’s Book . Cambridge : Variorum, Cambridge University Press...

... Polo and the missionary William of Rubruck. As in Arculf's case, Marco Polo's Description of the World is an as-told-to-by account of travel, for it was only after his return to Italy in 1298 that Marco dictated his recollections to a fellow-prisoner of the Genoese. Whereas the Polos had commercial...

... Henry Yule's edition, p. 58). Dr. Hart's eagerness to make Marco Polo a "definite, sharply-etched personality" sometimes leads him astray; and involves him in minor incon- sistencies. In one sentence he remarks that no extant records confirm Marco Polo's marriage in China. Yet later, he dwells...

... was greatly enlarged and the contour of European culture itself was changed by these influences. The first of these floods came at the close of the thirteenth century and consisted chiefly of the book of Marco Polo. The second flood consisted of the letters and reports of the Jesuit missionaries...

...; Hitler's High Seas Fleet; Japanese High Seas Fleet; and Napoleon's Peninsular Marshals. He has not spent much time reading the major secondary accounts about Marco Polo (i.e., the works of Olschki, Pelliot, and Moule). But his book is entertaining, wellwritten, and, most important, lavishly and profusely...

... of the book, however, is devoted to a peace feelers during the war, and then turns judicious and scholarly examination of Chinese back to a detailed analysis of the Marco Polo enamels from the earliest references to their Bridge outbreak in 1937 and of the difference existence during the Yuan period...

..., Berkeley H . F . SCHURMANN ^ ' Quinsai, With Other Notes on Marco Polo. By A. C. MOULE. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1957. xii, 92. Illustrations, Appendix. $5.50. L'auteur reprend ici, avec de nombreuses additions et, entre autres, des traductions de passages du Tou tch'eng hi cheng (1235) et...