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Yangzhou or Yangchow (both: yäng`jō`), city (1994 est. pop. 355,500), Jiangsu prov., China, on the Grand Canal. It is an agricultural market and transportation center with textile and other light industries. An ancient walled city, Yangzhou was in the 6th cent. one of the three capitals of the Sui dynasty and was later an important cultural center under the T'ang dynasty. A center of Nestorian Christianity, Marco Polo was an official there from 1282 to 1285. It is famous for its storytellers (who still perform today) as well as for its historic buildings and former palaces. The city was formerly known as Jiangdu. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For example, the male informants I interviewed who came from Funing and Yancheng (in Subei) were mostly handcart pullers or rickshaw pullers; those from Yangzhou (also in Subei) were mostly night-soil collectors; and those originating from Shandong (northeastern China) mostly worked in the railway station. Lee: I was arrested getting off the airplane at the Baiyun airport in Guangzhou (Canton), on January 22, 2003 and taken 1,000 miles away to the Yangzhou Detention Center in Jiangsu Province. SIG Blowtec supplied horizontal 3D molding machines to Yangzhou Auto Plastic Parts in Yangzhou to make air-intake ducting and to Shenyang Jinbei Automotive Co. |
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