Cathay "Pratica della mercatura", a guide about trade in China, a country he called "Cathay", noting the size of Khanbaliq (modern Beijing) and how merchants could exchange silver for Chinese paper money that could be used to buy luxury items such as silk. Words related to Khitay are still used in many Turkic and Slavic languages to refer to China. However, its use by Turkic speakers within China, such as the Uyghurs, is considered pejorative by the Chinese authority who had tried to ban it. As European and Arab travelers started reaching the Mongol Empire, they described the Mongol-controlled Northern China
Cathay (poetry collection) and the "invidia" which is directed against me because I have dared openly to declare my belief in certain young artists will be brought to bear on the flaws of such translations". Nonetheless upon the publication of the volume W. B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot remarked on the nature of the poems, their "robustness", with Pound's college friend Williams saying of them "If these were original verses, then Pound was the greatest poet of the day." Cathay (poetry collection) Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist