@inbook{10.3138/9781442688582.14,
 ISBN = {9780802099280},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442688582.14},
 abstract = {As befits the genre of meditation, this essay proceeds in incomplete circles and ponders the intangibility of sound and the increasingly acoustic quality of value, truth, and reality in the twenty-first century. I begin with a return, or re-tune, to the frequently read but seldom heard Prologue to Marco Polo’s book, a passage in which the speaker makes a plea that welistento the book. The acoustic truth, to which Polo’s speaker has begged us to attend, finds reverberations throughout this essay in Italo Calvino’sInvisible Cities, Kublai Khan’s paper money, British Romanticists’ poetic imagination, George Soros’s global capitalism,},
 author = {YUNTE HUANG and John Tulk},
 booktitle = {Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West},
 pages = {262--279},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Marco Polo: Meditations on Intangible Economy and Vernacular Imagination},
 year = {2008}
}