Marco Polo in China?

"Marco Polo, in The Adventures of Marco Polo, describes his sojourn in China."


Historian Jonathan Dresner on the History News Network has this to say about it:

'Marco Polo did not go to China...Marco Polo did not work for the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. Yes, it was possible to make the journey, and yes, some non-Chinese did serve the Yuan. But the errors in his Travels cannot be glossed over as "a traveler's tendency to exaggerate (especially in regard to numbers)" and his absence from Yuan records (which were pretty well kept) cannot be slipped by with "may have been employed" and the distinct likelihood that Polo was simply embellishing translations of Chinese gazetteers he picked up in Persia is not clearly expressed by "Scholars have long regarded Marco Polo's book, if used carefully, as an important historical document."'