This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

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[Photo provided to China Daily] In Woody Allen's Midnight ... Tang Dynasty due to being a transportation hub on the Grand Canal, an ancient waterway that was begun in the 5th century BC, which ...