The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?

Jonathan Clements is an author and scriptwriter whose works include An Armchair Traveller's History of the Silk Road. He has also written biographies of Kublai Khan and Empress Wu, as well as volumes on China and Japan in the Makers of the Modern World series.