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Gan River

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Gan River

 or Kan River

River, southeastern China. Located in Jiangxi province, it flows north through Lake Poyang to enter the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) after a course of 506 mi (815 km). A major southern tributary of the Yangtze, the Gan valley provided an important route in historical times from Guangzhou to the Yangtze valley and the north.



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To cut a long story short, these chapters say that in the Yongzheng reign, certain rulings were made about the treatment of "shed people" (chapter 5), that economic development in the Gan River basin drew in migrants (chapter 6) and that the migration resulted in intercommunal strife (chapter 7).
 
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