Ep. 347 | The Grand Canal

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I'm presenting a simple but still informative overview of not only the Grand Canal but also the bigger subject of canals in China. The history of the Grand Canal isn't one clean linear story of a structure built all at one time. Although it measures over a thousand miles long, much of that distance was pre-existing in the form of rivers and old canals that were joined together to form an uninterrupted passage. A lot of the academic papers I used to research this topic, despite water being the main topic, were as dry as the day is long. I tried to make it all nice and simple and easy to digest. This World Heritage Site is well-known to many but its history, perhaps less so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hi everyone, Lausl. Montgomery here with another China history podcast episode.
0:35.5	Today I wanted to look at the Grand Canal and some of China's historical waterways and trying to offer
0:41.1	up an appreciation and understanding the roles of canals in general
0:46.3	and the Dayyunhe specifically in the development of Chinese history.
0:50.8	It's the longest canal in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
0:55.9	It runs for 1,115 miles or 1,794 kilometers from Beijing to Hangzhou, or the distance from New York to Orlando,
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