Apakah Marco Polo benar-benar mencapai China?

Some modern historians question the veracity of Marco Polo's account, and wonder whether he really visited the Mongol empire, or whether Marco Polo was simply repeating stories that he had heard from other traders. Dr. Frances Wood has questioned whether or not Marco Polo was even in China, and has pointed out several things that a European traveler probably would have mentioned, but which Polo did not, and that there is no mention of Marco Polo in Chinese accounts of the period. Dr. Peter Jackson argues that there are several different versions of Polo's book, and questions whether it even represents Polo's account at all, but was instead simply written by a romance writer of the time. Questions have also been raised as to whether Marco Polo, if he did visit China, was genuinely an ambassador, or if he was simply one of the many travelers at the time who claimed to be an ambassador. However, Laurence Bergreen, in his book, Marco Polo From Venice to Xanadu, writes "it would have been a more amazing feat to amass so much accurate information about Asia without actually going there, then to have made the trip and write about it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo

Jadi intinya, terdapat kontroversi apakah Marco Polo sungguh mencapai China atau tidak, dengan berbagai pertanyaan dan bantahan, seperti tidak disebutnya nama Marco Polo pada catatan Tiongkok saat itu, menyebutkan hal yang sudah pernah disebutkan pengelana sebelumnya, beberapa penjelasan mengenai China yang imajinatif seperti makhluk imajinatif dan mengenai ia menjadi gubernur salah satu kota dan tidak pernah ada catatan ia dari penguasa, dll.