that in jam and has been some online on the new to the visa, who wrote a component chat about 700 years ago from italy to my home country of china and the 1000 kilometers all the way to the part of the legendary ruler of the one going on the working the same route that marco polo took. i wonder how much his journey stories have shaped the world and how much his name means to both you're of

the living china for 17 years as being in europe for 14. walking around his hometown a fitness i'm reminded of the nights i left china and the sense of stepping into the unknown. i imagine young michael total must have felt as to say it must have been a challenge for him 700 years ago. and it would probably be a challenge for me now as well, especially with the language that i don't know. what are they getting well in colorado school, in venice, i miss young athletes from both china and 84 competing in attractive adult trace. it's a one of many then being held to mark the 700 year anniversary of marco polo stuff

started as bush helps to bring us close. so it's a common ground that we can share with foreign countries raises. bring it in the, to my surprise, i discovered that even st. louis university has its own track in boat racing team. here in tulsa. i should be good with serendipity and then you should actually mentioned go who graduation from a university in venice. and she was working in jo to what i so even had she invited me to join the dragon boat team. it's a change. it's about the joy of working together, a higher rowing in different places, collective pride, cuz the connection between humans and nature. gotcha. without a status again, the way the truck and both race is called the marco polo.

the chatty and adventure has to be made household name to this day. i'm doing, i come through the centuries. but why is he's do so well know? what is it about his journey that it continues to inspire generations, including people like me and so many young people, hundreds of us later. i realize that in the city where my component was born and raised, there's no statute of him. we don't even know what he looked like as known. painting of him was made during his lifetime of his image constructed by ones. because this only museums, historical archive just and the most importantly in the book,

the troubles of michael polo, which he did into right himself. after returning from his 24 year checking, he was taken prisoner during a war between fitness engine on his cell, met the stick. hello, the pizza broke down marco polo. so the ventures did became the most influential and detailed you are paying a kind of aisha, shaping the west front seats about the east for centuries. filipino volume that for the 1st time a book showed aisha. it's mostly to asia populations by monstrous creatures and full of wonders. it's an extremely concrete aisha. made up of course, valuable boats, silk, precious stones, spices, but also cities of people. for the 1st time you discover this content level that they would all of us corporate. if we're still continuing the microphone. o'shea

team, great detail in the book. what he dislikes to travel along that station. so from that how it would be to travel just to quote today i can help the 13 thing, 1271. it took my compose 3 years to tell some goodness to try to venetians, i battle and d no, 64 and 67 years old respectively. and to complete the same route in just a 100 days from bicycles on the top of my performer, such as we want to pay tribute to our fellow citizen with his journey nor following in his footsteps. so gwendolen is 12 points to paint a picture of what the soup rude is and the 3rd millennium of the other. i say that meant that some of the with just 2 bags each and the camera room on to the,

on the handlebars. the 2 friends picking their attorney from the european gateway of the suit route, been the document to the entire journey. as a video diary from marco polo is the desire to new, the desire to understand they must be strategic about their choice as to political attentions on the safety of the 1st things they must consider. the file so that we have to slalom between wars. but we had an absolutely avoid russia . we wanted to and had to avoid ukraine to fly around is also not so advisable at this time, when she was filming accessed to some countries is unpredictable. the

the internet as a by john unbelievable. the data miss. we've been waiting since noon already been able to by the way, we will arrive and trick them bashi tomorrow afternoon. committee to begin. let's face this new leaf into the void into the dark. because we are entering, trick menace done. which is in some way, a peculiar country. they say, i say under my breath, the close of the whole check that is 2nd to north korea in terms of curtailing and personal freedoms. i look for a, have been aboard a test. pnc fairy did reach this choice of took my niece ton of g 3. stage 13. we are written to our minister

marco polo describes the vast harsh deserts of central asia, most likely types of to cut a comb, desert, a modern day to commodities time. no magic tribes facilitate to trade across this inc. hospitable regions for our attachment. the no navigation, the region by bike remains a significant challenge following the ation. so quote, they arise in bukosa, one of the most well preserved be able to see teasing, central asia, it's urban separate, has to remain largely intact for more than 2 se, that'd be too late. that bicycle gives you a totally different perspective. the perspective of slowness. it is a magnifying glass that makes you understand the world. yes, but i a pretty thing. you have strength to yourself and i'm leaving you get inside the panorama. that'd be great. if you mean that same feeling,

the polio family also felt going slowly with don't came is a little bit on food trembling by boat or airplane movie, and off the top of the night, the down to the sound. so we're trying to get into china and we can earlier, we talked to a place where there was only a highway and they sent us back. and we had to go around 25 kilometers and came to another highway. so maybe this time it will work on the tire batch on. do you know, have finally across the chinese border,

but their journey isn't over yet. with their small camera, they continued documenting the adventure. they still have more than 4000 kilometers of puddling, had till they reach their final destination facing the signed lease. after a 100 days of trouble, they've made it. they've reached the capital city. i'm happy to meet them and hear all about the ventures, the one the yeah jeep was eating, which is great when you travel like this on a bicycle because it's nice because you realize that the world is really better than one thinks because people help us. i just, i'm cal g even today at 3 o'clock a stranger stopped us and gave us 2 bottles of water and a few thoughts just sort of like you gave example global theory the what for me to come to where do you hydrate that really thought man so forget about movies,

you've got people helped us so much. it doesn't mean that the lesson from the small it weighs the ceiling. jotted, traveling always has to be an active community. you have to get closer to others. you have to share taste food and we have to share chinese taste community that which are not really the same as ours. we're not used to them, but that's what traveling is a cruise to get the one of his tours on speaker accomplish something monumental. it's easy to give the individual author credits, but the era comes to play some role. marco polo was always out to dallas in the

right place as exactly the right time to leave his marks on history. i make the 2 cyclists again in the turning on the c rating at a separation for them until owner component could follow was one of the many travelers. so many invoice, one of the many people leaving in these a really very diversified and wide space which was a and the un diagnosed is change the empire. and you see it for a sense when you visit, trying to reach right away in the book, the microphone on as called, woodside is what was allowed to call to the multi i. so the religious place where a lot of people from foreign countries,

the only leave the but also 5 to where a connection. so our time see to do with far away time please. the ations marie times soap fraud, beginning trundle, and under teen venice. it holds great significance for researchers, road white. the cycle of this century of economic power had pushed, the venetians, as far as the black sea coast, where the last western outposts were not getting there. and there was an encounter there with a foreign power that did something exceptional and incomparable. in human history, the mongols managed to go from a mass of semi nomadic tribes, whirling with each other into a military power capable of unifying under one power. all of continental agents, basically from korea to the borders of turkey. it took the last, yeah,

a substance of this or related conditions that had never been seen before in which anyone could travel freely throughout asia without risking their lives when he gets out to you. but i maintain that that was the key thing that comes up on them in the starting the peak of the mongol cheese chase. florist along the extending from the terrain to china, turning the cheese cities along the roads into a vibrant house from parts down. yet where i am no one such 6 population of more than 1000000 young yet is by no means or particularly large international city in the vast expense of china to day. but when my component arrived here, it was a true metropolitan hop going around chung, here,

i've discovered that many of the historical sites he mentioned in his book can still be found today. matt t. a temple comes on in the sub groups of john here. hold statues and warm paintings that dates back to the when dentist. marco polo wasn't particularly familiar with buddhism, referring to it's a speakers, as i don't think, today's china various forms of buddhism remained vibrant along the ation. so from tell me a staff for 10 polls were legend says cool black homeless board, marco polo also set floating site the

of the if i'm a component of what to look around, chung here today, people would surely stop and stare as a frame or a very team and around the city. but during his visit 700 years ago, he could have been just the one of many people was colored guys as the in a demonstration, categorize them. so i think that the significance is that lack of paula is a, one of the main, a, or leaved in these a job offer late globalization. and of course, the south of china was extremely sophisticated. the very develop turnville at the southern trace of china just across from taiwan is a city where every religion funding china is, is representative. todd, this is on the whole thing too long ago. the conqueror to you. really like to hear you from from the home phone, i will hundreds, look on this,

the top cushion. he will produce your microphone or system home. since i, the trundle in the city of toronto, you will fight or religious sites almost every streets christianity. buddhism, though is some confusion, isn't it some more i'll call you cause this keeps changing. if let me community states back to the 7th century and the oldest mosque in china is located here. even the long lost the religion of many keys has left its mark. the only set you of many can be found in the suburbs of trick joe. the thing chiron, temples. a bu decides. in the city center, you can even find statues of king to come under. keep like countries thing. the 13th century jungle. is this diverse religions,

an emergence from all over the wall? it was less modern day, new york. it was the rose, murray, time of trade centers during the summer and even 10 years. it's hard to say weather own road is more open now than it was 700 years ago. but the cities length of germany and change all 4 of the more international and opened during more components time the it was through my co pulse descriptions that the europe 1st came to know a china in such detail. inside the china millennium monuments, a release depicts a 100 his tardy coffee goes shaped chinese history. marco polo, it's a wonderful only to for a nice include the, he's execution was product off from diploma. so we wanted

to reach culture, it for the meaning of the 6 edition is a great g and china and photo wingdings to ration getting signed by michael porter itself. the beast, chide best, a site core. nick, we choose to have in our exhibition because inspiring is telling the story of west meeting the east georgina just todd, will you tell me an art historian and one of the exhibitions curators has lived in china for almost 10 years. i remember the 1st time i lived in bay jean i was speaking to someone last so last that i still have the light impressing my. i'm

this is now the ssl and all those are access. i clicked on this sent anything. so that's the way i really so about the portal and folders travelers back to the time because i was and i was thinking about how brave they where to go to so that we don't know the one side of the east that you're on the unknown. but on the other side, there is the excitement of learning so much. i remember i was feeling so impatient because i need to know i need to know everything. now. i wonder how my co pulse out when he finally are writing times the boys on to i went to visit the places marco polo once traveled to, such as it was, bank is done and places like turkey he was in the south. i truly want to visit

these places and you guys, originally i only knew about his exchange between china in italy, but i didn't realize he encountered so many other interesting things. yes, i don't want it, but now i feel an even stronger desire to visit these places and see them for myself, for the current and future cultural exchanges. this also offers us some insights. nowadays, the exchanges between countries around the world are becoming more frequent. and we continually commemoration reflect on these interactions in the future. and now social lives. we can be more inclusive and open to embrace the desires cultures from all over the world, engaging in friendly social interactions, even in cultural creation. for example, in the place we are now, there are many creation books behind us created by children based on marco polo and the cultural exchange between china and easily go you were trying to for the

this is a what a 10 year old child. think of each lee and i like this one very much because this is the imagination of how marco polo 8 hub pots and hard part is actually quite a popular dish. next, then they run diagnostics. so, so very beautiful one, the, it's the wonder last the search to florida venture that drives us to explore a world that a few so distant and the cultures that seems so different. it's just a bit rich, a thanks flora. just for every explorer of the comes on time when the pool of home grow stronger and the journey in actively leads us back to where with only when we traveled so far, which truly understand the meaning of home. just as only after saving aisha

color for lake rus, while hill roads is what ages it has said that marco polo left china function joke, most likely from this very flight. through of history, the west has often viewed the east with a mix of fussy nation and fear. but today the sense has become mutual to me, europe and asia has often mirror at each other, reflecting both their differences and the shared humanity. in any event that the freedom of the gays and the pushing aside of prejudices, cheerios, as he said, the other without arrogance, without

a sense of superiority disease. marco polo is not a device to feed, unlike other travelers. because he does not approach the other trying to concourse it meets him, and it is truly one of the account has a no history that has brought us the most often it's through cultural traditions. thanks jack and both christine, that we are reminded how we all share a piece of history together, the sense that sounds and so in today's society, although communication has been so developed, we actually should learn more from marco polo despaired of exchange width and tolerance for different cultures, the whole international situation is not very encouraging at the moment josephine so we need more dollars into the above. the one with the color came to china and the 13th century. the emperor coupla khan,

us. you've told so many stories. why have you never mentioned your hometown venice? marco polo replied because oh my stories contain my hometown. today, i can come from china to mancha polos hometown. it's meaningful and through drag and boat racing, it feels like i've come full circle back to venice. that's the perhaps we humans are wired to feel what is different and the media which makes the moment we recognize our collective humanity. all the more for from the,

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