The image these Mongol conquests invariably evoke ... Genghis’ grandson and successor Kublai Khan built a massive navy that transformed his army of Mongol horsemen into a joint naval-ground ...

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree," writes Coleridge, who then proceeds to describe in glorious imagery this pleasure dome: gardens bright with sinuous rills; incense ...

In Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge crafts—and perhaps even curates with an eerie instinct—the image of a wayward ruler bent not merely on governing his empire, but on mastering the very ...

Leading the Mongols to defeat China, Kublai Khan fulfilled his grandfather's ambitions to rule one of history’s largest empires. Kublai Khan’s portrait was painted after his death in 1294 and ...

An ancient story tells of the kamikaze, or "divine wind," that twice saved Japan from Kublai Khan's Mongol fleets. So powerful was the legend that centuries later thousands of World War II pilots ...