Grand Canal barges have no fancy ... 325 miles from Jining to the Yangtze. The original canal system, built by Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, was seen by Chinese historians as an act of ...

The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and ... means of communication for the Empire for the first time in the 7th century AD (Sui dynasty). This led to a series of gigantic ...

All the main characters reside in a neighborhood in Huajie (Flower Street) along the bank of a section of the Grand Canal ... to China during the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to search for ...