Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan or Khubilai Khan (1215 – 1294), Mongol military leader, was Khan (1260-1294) of the Mongol Empire and founder and first Emperor (1279-1294) of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty.
Kublai Khan in fiction
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a poem fragment in 1798 entitled "Kubla Khan", which invokes Kublai Khan among opium-induced imagery of exoticism. It begins "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree..."
- The pop band Frankie Goes To Hollywood used the poem's beginning in their lyrics, substituting "decree" with "erect".
- The progressive rock band Rush turned Coleridge's poem into an entire ballad entitled "Xanadu". The song is regarded by many Rush fans as one of the group's best songs.
- Author Douglas Adams used the poem and the story of its creation in his book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
- Kublai Khan also appears as a character in Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, together with Marco Polo.
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