Yangtze River
About Yangtze River
The Yangtze River, Yangzi River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in China and the third-longest river in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows for 6,236 kilometers (3,875 mi), including the Dam Qu River, the longest source of the Yangtze, in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea. It is the fifth-largest primary river by discharge volume in the world. Its drainage basin comprises one-fifth of the land area of China, and is home to nearly one-third of the country's population.
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They had to divert the entire Yangtze River while they built the dam.
from No Such Thing As The Three Gorgeous Dams, 2024-07-18 at 00:38:19 · read transcript
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Yeah. Just going along the Steve Coogan line, the first man we think to walk the complete Great Wall of China was an American. It was an American adventurer called William Edgar Gile and he was a really incredible guy and he trekked across Africa and he traveled along the Yangtze River. He did all these amazing expeditions and no one's heard of him these days. He was late 19th century and, um, when he died, he left $3,000 to commission a biography of himself.
90: No Such Thing As The Brilliant Billion, 2015-12-04 · listen
Brilliant. One of the poets was an emperor. It was one of the, yeah. Was it a stoner emperor? Tianlong, he was sailing across the Yangtze River. Yeah, he wrote, porpoises chased moonlight on silvered tides as dragons summoned storm clouds, loom in sight. That was used as part of the, yeah. Of course, dragons have died out now as well, haven't they? That is one of the problems because a lot of the things that people wrote were metaphorical.
600: No Such Thing As The Doughnut Ambassador, 2025-09-11 · listen
So we know where on the Yangtze River, so this is all on the Yangtze River in China, that we know where they will have lived, where they will have written, where they will have visited, and they write about porpoises because porpoises are really big, they're really.
No Such Thing As The Doughnut Ambassador, 2025-09-11 · listen
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