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Wuxi, China And Life On The Grand Canal

Previously submitted by the became the transshipping
late Don Kiselewski, MCC, center of grain destined for
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens the capital, Beijing. It thus
Travel Leaders became one of the greatest
Although not exactly a grain markets in China,
household name or familiar handling vast quantities of
spot on the globe, Wuxi rice annually, and was the
is nonetheless one of the seat of a complex commercial
important cities in China. organization made up of
However, it is one of those extremely wealthy merchants
places that you must want and middlemen.
to visit, because it is rare to When the Grand Canal fell
find it on any of the regular tours that visit sites in China. into decay after 1850, Wuxi
The city, pronounced “woo-she,” lies on the Grand Canal retained its importance as a
– which stretches more than 1,000 miles from Beijing to rice market, exporting grain
Hangzhou – near the northeast corner of Lake Taihu. to Shanghai for reshipment.
Wuxi is one of the oldest The grain trade increased
cities in the Yangtze River even more when the rail
Delta area. It was originally line was completed between
known as a source of tin, Nanking to the northwest and Sunset on Lake Taihu near the shores of Wuxi
however, by the time the Shanghai to the east, with
county was founded under Wuxi becoming the central
the former Han dynasty (206 collection point for grain in
B.C. to A.D. 8), the deposits the line. Having ridden on
were exhausted and so it the passenger service on this
was named Wuxi, meaning section of China’s railway, I
“without tin.” can attest to its cleanliness as
Since early times, the well as lack of concern for
area around the city has been punctuality.
extremely fertile, and after Wuxi is also one of the
the completion of the Grand A man fries seafood in a food centers of the traditional
Canal in A.D. 609, Wuxi market in the center of Wuxi. (hand-operated) textile
industries, being engaged
in both cotton textiles and
silk reeling. The cotton yarn
produced is woven not only
in the city itself but also in
Zhangzhou and Suzhou (or
Soochow). Silk reeled in
Wuxi is most often woven

Wuxi, China And Life On
The Grand Canal on page 9 Traditional houses near the Grand Canal in the center of Wuxi

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