The Essential World History, William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel, Cengage Learning, 2010, ISBN 978-0-495-90227-0, ... His son, Emperor Sui Yangdi (Sui Yang Ti), continued the process, and the 1400-mile-long Grand Canal, linking the two great rivers of China, the Yellow and the Yangtze, was completed during his reign ...
Ancient Chinese Inventions, Yinke Deng, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-18692-6, ... China's Grand Canal runs from Beijing in the north, to Hangzhou in the south and is the oldest and longest canal in the world. As the greatest engineering project in water resources and transportation in ancient China, this waterway is nearly as famous as the Great Wall ...
