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What was the first book that aroused Europeans' great interest in Chinese civilization?
The Travels of Marco Polo is divided into four volumes. The first volume records what Kyle Polo saw and heard when he traveled eastward to Shangdu. The second volume records Mongolian Khan Kublai Khan and his palace, capital, court, government, festivals, hunting, etc. From Dadu to Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, East Coast and all continents; The third volume records Japan, Vietnam, East India, South India, Indian Ocean coast and islands, and East Africa. The fourth volume records the wars of King Tatar, a descendant of Genghis Khan, in King's Landing Asia and North Asia. Each volume is divided into chapters, and each chapter describes a situation or a historical event in a place, totaling 229 chapters. There are more than 65,438+000 place names of countries and cities described in the book. Taken together, these places include mountains and rivers, products, climate, merchants' trade, residents, religious beliefs, customs and habits, as well as national anecdotes, historical events and cultural relics.

Kyle Poirot's book is a travelogue about Asia, which records the situation of many countries in Central Asia, West Asia and Southeast Asia, and its key part is the narrative about China. Kyle Poirot has spent the longest time in China, covering northwest, north, southwest and east China. In his travels, he described China's endless wealth, huge commercial city, excellent transportation facilities and magnificent palace buildings with a lot of chapters and passionate language. The second volume of Travel Notes, mainly describing China, consists of 82 chapters, which is very important in the book. There is a lot of space in this book about Kublai Khan and Beijing.