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Crushed by a Mountain. Such indifference was of no avail when the mighty Mongol hordes, headed by Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, arrived at the gates of fragrant Hangchou. Before his fierce tribesmen the southern capital fell-crushed, one Chinese historian wrote, as "the Sacred Mountain T'ai would crush an egg." What followed was a galling 100-year reign by the Mongol foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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