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Grand Canal (China)

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The Grand Canal is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China. [1]

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  1. 225 relations: An Lushan rebellion, Ancient Chinese states, Barge, Bazi Bridge, Beijing, Beijing–Guangzhou railway, Bian River (China), Binjiang, Hangzhou, Buddhism in Japan, Bulk cargo, Canal, Cangzhou, Cao'e River, Chang'an, Changzhou, Chengde, China, Chinese Civil War, Chinese economic reform, Chinese people, Choe Bu, Corvée, Courier, Dam, Dawen River, Deng Xiaoping, Dezhou, Direct-administered municipality, Dongping Lake, Dujiangyan, East China, East China Sea, Eastern Zhejiang Canal, Economic history of China, Economic history of China (1912–1949), Economic history of China before 1912, Economy of China, Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor Yang of Sui, Ennin, Erie Canal, Expeditionary warfare, Expressways of China, Fan Li, First Turkic Khaganate, Flash lock, Flood control, Fuchai of Wu, Gaoyou Lake, ... Expand index (175 more) »

  2. Canals in China
  3. Naval history of China
  4. Sui dynasty
  5. Water transport in China

An Lushan rebellion

The An Lushan rebellion was a civil war in China that lasted from 755 to 763, at the approximate midpoint of the Tang dynasty (618–907).

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Ancient Chinese states

Ancient Chinese states were dynastic polities of China within and without the Zhou cultural sphere prior to Qin's wars of unification.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Bazi Bridge

The Bazi Bridge is a stone arch bridge in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Beijing–Guangzhou railway

The Beijing–Guangzhou railway or Jingguang railway is a major trunk railway that connects Beijing in the north with Guangzhou in the south.

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Bian River (China)

The Bian River, also known in Chinese as the Bian Shui (汴水), was an ancient river partly located within the borders of Kaifeng City, Henan, China.

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Binjiang, Hangzhou

() is one of ten urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, in East China, it is located in the core urban area of Hangzhou.

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Buddhism in Japan

Buddhism was first established in Japan in the 6th century CE.

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Bulk cargo

Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities.

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Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

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Cangzhou

Cangzhou is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China.

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Cao'e River

The Cao'e River is one of the largest rivers in Zhejiang Province of East China, named after Cao E, a Han dynasty girl venerated for her filial piety.

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Chang'an

Chang'an is the traditional name of Xi'an. Grand Canal (China) and Chang'an are sui dynasty.

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Changzhou

Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu, China.

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Chengde

Chengde, formerly known as Jehol and Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated about northeast of Beijing.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.

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Chinese economic reform

The Chinese economic reform or Chinese economic miracle, also known domestically as reform and opening-up, refers to a variety of economic reforms termed "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that began in the late 20th century, after Mao Zedong's death in 1976.

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Chinese people

The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.

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Choe Bu

Choe Bu (1454–1504) was a Korean diarist, historian, politician, and travel writer during the early Joseon Dynasty.

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Corvée

Corvée is a form of unpaid forced labour that is intermittent in nature, lasting for limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year.

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Courier

A courier is a person or organization that delivers a message, package or letter from one place or person to another place or person.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Dawen River

Dawen River is a river in Shandong Province, China.

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Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.

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Dezhou

Dezhou is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China.

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Direct-administered municipality

A direct-administered municipality (commonly known as municipality) is a city of China that is directly affiliated with the central government and is not placed under any provinces.

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Dongping Lake

The Dongping Lake is a freshwater lake in Shandong Province of China.

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Dujiangyan

The Dujiangyan is an ancient irrigation system in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan, China. Grand Canal (China) and Dujiangyan are canals in China and world Heritage Sites in China.

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East China

East China is a geographical region that covers the eastern coastal area of China.

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East China Sea

The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China.

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Eastern Zhejiang Canal

The Eastern Zhejiang or Zhedong Canal, also known as the HangzhouNingbo or Hangyong Canal, is a major canal connecting Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in northern Zhejiang, China. Grand Canal (China) and Eastern Zhejiang Canal are canals in China.

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Economic history of China

The economic history of China is covered in the following articles.

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Economic history of China (1912–1949)

After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China underwent a period of instability and disrupted economic activity. Grand Canal (China) and economic history of China (1912–1949) are economic history of China.

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Economic history of China before 1912

The economic history of China covers thousands of years and the region has undergone alternating cycles of prosperity and decline. Grand Canal (China) and economic history of China before 1912 are economic history of China.

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Economy of China

China's economy is a developing mixed socialist market economy, incorporating industrial policies and strategic five-year plans.

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Emperor Wen of Sui

Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝; 21 July 541 – 13 August 604), personal name Yang Jian (楊堅), Xianbei name Puliuru Jian (普六茹堅), alias Narayana deriving from Buddhist terms, was the founding emperor of the Chinese Sui dynasty.

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Emperor Xiaozong of Song

Emperor Xiaozong of Song (27 November 1127 – 28 June 1194), personal name Zhao Shen, courtesy name Yuanyong, was the 11th emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the second emperor of the Southern Song dynasty.

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Emperor Yang of Sui

Emperor Yang of Sui (隋煬帝, 569 – 11 April 618), personal name Yang Guang (楊廣), alternative name Ying (英), Xianbei name Amo (阿摩), was the second emperor of the Sui dynasty of China.

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Ennin

, better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師), was a priest of the Tendai school of Buddhism in Japan, and its third.

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Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.

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Expeditionary warfare

Expeditionary warfare is a military invasion of a foreign territory, especially away from established bases.

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Expressways of China

The expressway network of China, with the national-level expressway system officially known as the National Trunk Highway System (abbreviated as NTHS), is an integrated system of national and provincial-level expressways in China.

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Fan Li

Fan Li (fl. 5th-century BCE) from the Spring and Autumn period, was a Chinese businessman, military strategist, and politician.

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First Turkic Khaganate

The First Turkic Khaganate, also referred to as the First Turkic Empire, Göktürk Khaganate, or the Turkic Khaganate (𐰃𐰓𐰃𐰆𐰴𐰽𐰔:𐰰𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰), was a Turkic khaganate established by the Ashina clan of the Göktürks in medieval Inner Asia under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d.

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Flash lock

A flash lock is a type of lock for river or canal transport.

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Flood control

Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters.

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Fuchai of Wu

Fuchai (reigned 495–473BC), sometimes also written Fucha, was the last king of the state of Wu during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

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Gaoyou Lake

Gaoyou Lake is the sixth largest freshwater lake in China, it is located between Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province.

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George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the British-occupied Cape Colony.

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Geyuan

Geyuan, Ge Yuan, or Ge Garden is located on Dongguan Street in Yangzhou, a city renowned for traditional private gardens, in Jiangsu Province, southeast China.

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Goguryeo

Goguryeo (37 BC – 668 AD) (high castle; Old Korean: Guryeo) also later known as Goryeo (high and beautiful; Middle Korean: 고ᇢ롕〮, kwòwlyéy), was a Korean kingdom which was located on the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of modern-day Northeast China (Manchuria).

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Goguryeo–Sui War

The Goguryeo–Sui War were a series of invasions launched by the Sui dynasty of China against Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, between AD 598 and AD 614. Grand Canal (China) and Goguryeo–Sui War are Naval history of China.

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Gongchen Bridge

The Gongchen Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge over the Grand Canal in Gongshu District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

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Government of China

The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.

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Grain trade

The grain trade refers to the local and international trade in cereals such as wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and other food grains.

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Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Gu Yanwu

Gu Yanwu (July 15, 1613 – February 15, 1682), also known as Gu Tinglin, was a Chinese philologist, geographer, and famous scholar-official in Qing dynasty.

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Guangji Bridge (Chaozhou)

Guangji Bridge, also known as Xiangzi Bridge, is an ancient bridge that crosses the Han River east of Chaozhou, Guangdong province, China.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Hai River

The Hai River (海河, lit. "Sea River"), also known as the Peiho, ("White River"), or Hai Ho, is a Chinese river connecting Beijing to Tianjin and the Bohai Sea.

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Hangzhou

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northeastern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. As of 2022, the Hangzhou metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of 4 trillion yuan (US$590 billion), making it larger than the economy of Sweden.

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Hangzhou Bay

Hangzhou Bay is a funnel-shaped inlet of the East China Sea, bordered by the province of Zhejiang and the municipality of Shanghai, which lies north of the Bay.

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Hebei

Hebei is a province in North China.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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High-speed rail in China

The high-speed rail (HSR) network in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's longest and most extensively used – with a total length of by the end of 2023.

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History of Beijing

The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years.

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History of canals in China

The history of canals in China connecting its major rivers and centers of agriculture and population extends from the legendary exploits of Yu the Great in his attempts control the flooding of the Yellow River to the present infrastructure projects of the People's Republic of China. Grand Canal (China) and history of canals in China are water transport in China.

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History of China

The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.

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Hongze Lake

Hongze Lake, previously known as Lake Hungtze or Hung-tse, is the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China.

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Houhai

Houhai is a lake and its surrounding neighborhood in Xicheng District of central Beijing, China.

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Huai River

The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of.

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Huai'an

Huai'an, formerly Huaiyin, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province in Eastern China.

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Huainan

Huainan is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui province, China.

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Huan Wen

Huan Wen (桓溫) (312 – 18 August 373), courtesy name Yuanzi (元子), formally Duke Xuanwu of Nan Commandery (南郡宣武公), was a general and regent of the Jin Dynasty (266–420), as well as the leader of Huan clan of Qiaoguo (谯国桓氏).

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Hydraulic engineering

Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage.

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Ibn Battuta

Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Intermodal container

An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Jesuit missions in China

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world.

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Jiangdu, Yangzhou

Jiangdu (historically known as Kiangtu) is one of three districts of Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

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Jiangnan

Jiangnan is a geographic area in China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of its delta.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Jiaxing

Jiaxing, alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China.

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Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234 founded by Emperor Taizu (first).

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Jin dynasty (266–420)

The Jin dynasty or Jin Empire, sometimes distinguished as the or the, was an imperial dynasty in China that existed from 266 to 420.

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Jin–Song wars

The Jin–Song Wars were a series of conflicts between the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and the Han-led Song dynasty (960–1279).

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Jining

Jining is a former capital of Shandong.

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John King Fairbank

John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations.

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Joseon

Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years.

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Joseph Needham

Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China.

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Jurchen people

Jurchen (Manchu: Jušen,; 女真, Nǚzhēn) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking people.

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Kaifeng

Kaifeng is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China.

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Kangxi Emperor

The Kangxi Emperor (4 May 165420 December 1722), also known by his temple name Emperor Shengzu of Qing, personal name Xuanye, was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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Khanbaliq

Khanbaliq (style, Qaɣan balɣasu) or Dadu of Yuan (ᠳᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠳᠤ, Dayidu) was the winter capital of the Yuan dynasty of China in what is now Beijing, the capital of China today.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Lake Tai

Taihu, also known as Lake Tai or Lake Taihu, is a lake in the Yangtze Delta and one of the largest freshwater lakes in China.

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Levee

A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.

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Liangshan County

Liangshan County is a county situated in the southwest of Shandong province, China.

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Liaocheng

Liaocheng, is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong province, China.

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Lin'an Prefecture

Lin'an Prefecture (1129–1277) was, after 1138, the capital of the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279).

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Lingqu

The Lingqu is a canal in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in the northwestern corner of Guangxi, China. Grand Canal (China) and Lingqu are canals in China.

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Linqing

Linqing is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Liaocheng in western Shandong Province, China.

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List of rebellions in China

This is an incomplete list of some of the rebellions, revolts and revolutions that have occurred in China.

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Litre

The litre (British English spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metres (m3). A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of (see figure) and is thus equal to one-thousandth of a cubic metre.

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Lock (water navigation)

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.

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Lu (state)

Lu (249 BC) was a vassal state during the Zhou dynasty of ancient China located around modern Shandong.

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Lu You

Lu You (1125–1210) was a Chinese historian and poet of the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋).

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Luoma Lake

Luoma Lake is located in central Jiangsu province, China, northwest of Suqian.

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Luoyang

Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province.

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Main stem

In hydrology, a mainstem (or trunk) is "the primary downstream segment of a river, as contrasted to its tributaries".

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Manchu people

The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.

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Mandate of Heaven

The Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese political ideology that was used in Ancient China and Imperial China to legitimize the rule of the king or emperor of China.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways.

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Marsh

In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.

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Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci (Matthaeus Riccius; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.

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Merle Goldman

Merle Dorothy Rosenblatt Goldman (March 12, 1931 – November 16, 2023) was an American historian and sinologist of modern China.

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Military history of China before 1912

The recorded military history of China extends from about 2200 BC to the present day.

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Military history of the Sui dynasty

The military history of the Sui dynasty encompasses the period of Chinese military activity from 581 to 618. Grand Canal (China) and military history of the Sui dynasty are sui dynasty.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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Mongols

The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.

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Nanjing

Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.

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Nansi Lake

Nansi Lake, or Weishan Lake, administrated by Weishan County and located in Shandong Province in China, is the largest freshwater lake in the north of the country.

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Nanwang

Nanwang is a town in Wenshang County in the prefecture-level city Jining city in Shandong province in China.

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Nanwang water division system

Nanwang water division system is a historical system for management of the water in the Grand Canal in the Shandong province in China. Grand Canal (China) and Nanwang water division system are canals in China.

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Nanyang, Henan

Nanyang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Henan province, China.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Natural disasters in China

Natural disasters in China are the result of several different natural hazards that affect the country according to its particular geographic and geologic features affecting both humans and animals.

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Ningbo

Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis.

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North China

North China is a geographical region of China, consisting of two direct-administered municipalities (Beijing and Tianjin), two provinces (Hebei and Shanxi), and one autonomous region (Inner Mongolia).

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North China Plain

The North China Plain is a large-scale downfaulted rift basin formed in the late Paleogene and Neogene and then modified by the deposits of the Yellow River.

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Northern and southern China

Northern China and Southern China are two approximate regions within China.

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Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion)

The Northern Expedition was a failed campaign by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom against the Qing dynasty during the Taiping Rebellion.

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Pan Gate

Pan Gate, Pan Men, or Panmen (Suzhou Wu: Boe men) is a historical landmark in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

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Pei County

Pei County, or Peixian, is under the administration of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China, bordering the Shandong prefecture-level cities of Jining to the northwest and Zaozhuang to the northeast and sitting on the western shore of Nansi Lake.

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Pizhou

Pizhou is a county-level city under the administration of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

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Pollution in China

Pollution in China is one aspect of the broader topic of environmental issues in China.

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Post-classical history

In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 CE to 1500 CE, roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages.

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Precious Belt Bridge

The Precious Belt Bridge, also known by other names, is a stone arch bridge near Suzhou in Jiangsu, China.

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Provinces of China

Provinces (p) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Qi (state)

Qi, or Ch'i in Wade–Giles romanization, was a regional state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, whose rulers held titles of Hou (侯), then Gong, before declaring themselves independent Kings.

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Qianlong Emperor

The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 17117 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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Qiantang River

The Qiantang River, formerly known as the Hangchow River or Tsientang River, is a river in East China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qing'an Guildhall

The East Zhejiang Maritime Affairs/Folk Custom Museum.

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Quanzhou

Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China.

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Rail transport in China

Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in China.

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Rashid al-Din Hamadani

Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (رشیدالدین طبیب;‎ 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate Iran.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Roads in China

Roads in China may refer to.

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Robert Fortune

Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Australia, and North America.

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Salt in Chinese history

Salt in Chinese history including salt production and salt taxes played key roles in economic development, and relations between state and society in China. Grand Canal (China) and salt in Chinese history are economic history of China.

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Scholar-official

The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats, were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a distinct social class.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Shandong

Shandong is a coastal province in East China.

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Shaobo Lake

Shaobo Lake is a freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province, China, it is located between Gaoyou and Yangzhou.

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Shaoxing

Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China.

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Shichahai

Shichahai is a historic scenic area consisting of three lakes in the north of central Beijing.

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Si River

The Si River (Chinese: 泗河, pinyin: Sì Hé; formerly 泗水, pinyin: Sì Shuǐ) is a river in Shandong Province, eastern China.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (司馬遷; was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years beginning from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and the formation of the first Chinese polity to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, during which Sima wrote.

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.

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Slender West Lake

Slender West Lake, also known by its Chinese name Shouxihu and by other names, is a scenic lake in Hanjiang District in central Yangzhou, China.

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Sohu

Sohu, Inc. is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing.

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Song (state)

Song was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty with its capital at Shangqiu.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.

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South–North Water Transfer Project

The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is a multidecade infrastructure mega-project in China that ultimately aims to channel 44.8 cubic kilometers (44.8 billion cubic meters) of fresh water each year from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems. Grand Canal (China) and South–North Water Transfer Project are canals in China.

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Spring and Autumn period

The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.

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Stream capture

Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down to the bed of a neighbouring stream.

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Su Qin

Su Qin (380–284 BCE) was a Chinese political consultant and philosopher who was an influential political strategist during the Warring States period.

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Sui dynasty

The Sui dynasty was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 581 to 618.

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Suqian

Suqian (IPA) is a prefecture-level city in northern Jiangsu Province, China.

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Suzhou

Suzhou (Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'', Mandarin), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, China.

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Tai'an

Tai'an is a prefecture-level city in Western Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China.

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Tai'erzhuang, Zaozhuang

Tai'erzhuang District is the southernmost of five districts under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zaozhuang.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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The Confusions of Pleasure

The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China is an influential Passim, but states that the book is "now-influential": "... Grand Canal (China) and the Confusions of Pleasure are economic history of China.

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Tianjin

Tianjin is a municipality and metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea.

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Tianjin–Pukou railway

The Tianjin–Pukou or Jinpu railway (Postal spelling: Tientsin-Pukow Railway) runs from Tianjin to Pukou district outside Nanjing in Jiangsu province.

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Timothy Brook

Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology).

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Tongzhou, Beijing

Tongzhou is a district of Beijing.

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Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages.

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Tuntian

Tuntian (屯田) or tunken (屯墾) was a type of frontier "military-agricultural colonies" in the history of China.

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Turpan water system

The Turpan water system or Turfan karez system 6) in Turpan, located in the Turpan Depression, Xinjiang, China, is a vertical tunnel system adapted by the Uyghur people. The word karez means "well" in the local Uyghur language. Turpan has the Turpan Karez Paradise museum (a Protected Area of the People's Republic of China) dedicated to demonstrating its karez water system, as well as exhibiting other historical artifacts.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Upheaval of the Five Barbarians

The Upheaval of the Five Barbarians also translated as the Uprising, Rebellion or the Revolt of the Five Barbarians is a Chinese expression used to refer to a chaotic period of warfare during the Jin dynasty (266–420) roughly between 304 and 316 which heavily involved non-Han peoples living in China, commonly called the Five Barbarians.

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Wanli Emperor

The Wanli Emperor (4 September 1563 – 18 August 1620), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shenzong of Ming, personal name Zhu Yijun, art name Yuzhai, was the 13th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1572 to 1620.

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Water quality

Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage.

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Water resources of China

The water resources of China are affected by both severe water shortages and severe growing population and rapid economic development as well as lax environmental oversight have increased in a large scale the water demand and pollution.

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Waterway

A waterway is any navigable body of water.

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Wei River (Shandong and Henan)

The Wei or Wey River is a river in northern Henan, southern Hebei, and western Shandong in China.

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Weir

A weir or low-head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.

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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) or Wilson Center is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank named for former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

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World Heritage Committee

The World Heritage Committee is a committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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Wu (state)

Wu (Old Chinese: *) was a state during the Western Zhou dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period, outside the Zhou cultural sphere.

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Wu Sangui

Wu Sangui (8 June 1612 – 2 October 1678), courtesy name Changbai (長白) or Changbo (長伯), was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the fall of the Ming dynasty and the founding of the Qing dynasty.

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Wuxi

Wuxi is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China.

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Xi'an

Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province.

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Xuzhou

Xuzhou, also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.

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Yangtze Delta

The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu-speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui.

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Yangzhou

Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China.

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Yanzhou, Jining

Yanzhou (postal: Yenchow) is a district in the prefecture-level city of Jining, in the southwest of Shandong province, People's Republic of China.

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Yellow River

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.

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Yellow River flood

Yellow River flood may refer to.

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Yong River (Zhejiang)

The Yong River (Chinese: 江, p, Wu) is one of the main rivers in China, located in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.

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Yongle Emperor

The Yongle Emperor (2 May 136012 August 1424), personal name Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

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Yu the Great

Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was famed for "the first successful state efforts at flood control," his establishment of the Xia dynasty which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and his upright moral character.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Yucheng Postal Stop

Yucheng Postal Stop, also called Yucheng Post is located in the Postal Lane outside the South Gate of Gaoyou, Jiangsu, China, west of the Grand Canal.

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Yue (state)

Yue (Old Chinese: *), also known as Yuyue (于越), was a state in ancient China which existed during the first millennium BC the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of China's Zhou dynasty in the modern provinces of Zhejiang, Shanghai and Jiangsu.

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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang, alternately romanized as Chinkiang, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, China.

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1851–1855 Yellow River floods

The 18511855 Yellow River floods were a series of natural disasters along the Yellow River in China, culminating in the 1855 channel change event.

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5th century BC

The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC.

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See also

Canals in China

Naval history of China

Sui dynasty

Water transport in China

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)

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