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A view of a pavilion on West Lake in Yangzhou. Home throughout its history to great merchant families, poets, artists and scholars, Yangzhou sits on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Marco Polo reported that he served here, at the behest of Kublai Khan. “So that this Yanju is, you see, a city of great importance. And Messer Polo himself, of whom this books speaks, did govern this city for full years, by the order of the Great Khan.” The Travels of Marco Polo, Vol 2, Bk 2, Ch 68 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
Author: Michael Yamashita
© Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 19.2 Mpixels (54.8 MB uncompressed) - 5362x3575 pixels (17.9x11.9 in / 45.4x30.3 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: architecture, bridge, building, China, Chinese Pavillion, circle, cultural, culture, exterior, framing device, Jiangsu, Lake Shouxi, landscape, Marco Polo Book, outside, page 292-293, round, Silk Road, Slender West Lake, tradition, traditional, trees, water, West Lake, Yangtze River, Yangzhou