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Xiang Riveror Hsiang River conventional Siang RiverRiver, Hunan province, southeastern China. One of the principal tributaries of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), it flows 500 mi (800 km) from the mountains in northern Guangxi autonomous region, through Hunan province, into Dongting Lake, and then into the Yangtze. Large vessels from the Yangtze can reach as far as Changsha via the Xiang. The river has been a north-south trade route for centuries. |
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Something of a coup de theatre surfaces when Wang Chiang-mei as the Goddess of the Xiang River dominates the stage trailing a seemingly endless white veil, manipulated and arranged at one point like Robert Smithson's postmodern earth work called Spiral Jetty. the 33-story, five-star Bestride Hotel in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, overlooks the Xiang River and is connected to Baisha Well Park. Changsha, a city in southern China and the capital of Hunan province, is a busy port on the Xiang River, and also the industrial, transportation and cultural center of what is becoming China's most important grain producing region. |
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