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    Shangdu (redirect from Xanadu, China)
    Shangdu (Chinese: 上都; lit. 'Upper Capital'; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɑ̂ŋ tú]; Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠩᠳᠤ Шанду, Šandu), also known as Xanadu (/ˈzænəduː/ ZAN-ə-doo)...
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  • nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China. The city appears in Kubla Khan by Samuel...
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    the Xanadu Gun, so called because it was discovered in the ruins of Xanadu (Shangdu), the summer palace of the Yuan dynasty in Inner Mongolia, China. The...
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  • Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a...
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  • Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company develops cloud...
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    Abaskun – medieval Caspian Sea trading port Alexandria in Margiana Xanadu, China – now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Wanggeom-seong, historic capital...
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  • Chiang Kai-shek. Xanadu / Shangdu (上都; Shàngdū; 'Upper Capital'), located northwest of present-day Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia, China, was the summer capital...
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    Wutaishan Dengfeng Chishui Langshan Taining Danxia Longhu Jianglang West Lake Xanadu Chengjiang Tian Shan Honghe Laosicheng Tangya Hailongtun Huashan Shennongjia...
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    of the Manzanera. Xanadu is built over the coastal cliff of Calpe facing the Mediterranean Sea. The name Xanadu references the Chinese summer city of Kublai...
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    believe that the axis was designed in the Yuan dynasty to be aligned with Xanadu, the other capital of their empire. The Forbidden City is surrounded by...
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    begins with a fanciful description of the origin of Kublai Khan's capital Xanadu (lines 1–2). It is described as being near the river Alph, which passes...
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    the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated to 1288, and the Xanadu Gun dated to 1298. However, only the Xanadu gun contains an inscription bearing a date of production...
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    to man Down to a sunless sea. The play featured the mythical Chinese/Mongol city of Xanadu, which is also a color associated with the Yuan dynasty. The...
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  • restaurants such as Betelnut, Xanadu, and Shanghai 1930, as an effort to "educate" San Francisco on "what real Chinese cuisine is". China Live was inspired by...
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    established the Yuan dynasty. Kublai Khan's summer capital Shangdu (aka Xanadu) was located near present-day Dolonnor. During that time Ongud and Khunggirad...
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    Kublai Khan's summer palace and garden at Xanadu. The Venetian traveler Marco Polo is believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275, and described the garden...
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    Liu Yuxin (singer) (category CS1 Chinese (China)-language sources (zh-cn))
    Her album "Epsilon" and "Xanadu" tops Chinese billboards. Xin is also the very first female captain of Street Dance of China (season 5). Xin first gained...
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  • of Xilin Gol league, Inner Mongolia, China Shangdu County (商都), a county of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China Xanadu (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • real. List of mythological places Sagala, capital of the Hellenic Indies Xanadu Shambhala El Dorado Hilton, James (1933). Lost Horizon. Macmillan. Archived...
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    capital was in Shangdu (Chinese: 上都; lit. 'Upper Capital', also called Xanadu, near what today is Dolon Nor). To unify China, Kublai began a massive offensive...
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    Marco Polo (category Venetian expatriates in China)
    ISBN 978-0-618-52266-8 Bergreen, Laurence (2007), Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-307-26769-6 Power, Eileen...
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    Love" (1978), "Twist of Fate" (1983) and, from the 1980 film Xanadu, "Magic" and "Xanadu" (with the Electric Light Orchestra). With over 100 million records...
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    Богдоос Лигдэн Хутаг хүртэл 36 хаад Man, John (2006). Kublai Khan: From Xanadu to Superpower. London, England: Bantam Books. ISBN 9780553817188. Thackston...
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    Huochong (category Weapons of China)
    is a bronze hand cannon bearing an inscription dating it to 1298 (see Xanadu gun). By the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) two types of huochong...
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  • consequences for the modern world of Kublai's conquest of all China. Also in 2014, Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of the East was acquired by...
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    Paiza (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Bergreen Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu, p.341 George Lane Genghis Khan and Mongol rule, p.34 John Man Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of...
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    Hand cannon (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
    dynasty carried Chinese cannons to Java during their 1293 invasion. The oldest extant hand cannon bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, which contains...
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    Plain Blue Banner, Inner Mongolia (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    province to the south. It is under the administration of Xilin Gol League. Xanadu or Yuan Shangdu, one of the capitals of the Yuan dynasty, was located here...
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    Gun (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    the 1280s. Surviving cannons such as the Heilongjiang hand cannon and the Xanadu Gun have been found dating to the late 13th century and possibly earlier...
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    St Sever). Rossabi, Morris (1992). Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the first journey from China to the West. Kodansha International Ltd. ISBN 4-7700-1650-6...
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