{"title":"Grand Canal, China","description":"\u003cp\u003eChina's Grand Canal is seen at two scales, as the setting for a village scene in Shandong and as a line drawn across the whole country. The village of Kya kya on the canal appears in a print of 1746 after Nieuhof, while Edward Weller's antique maps of China, issued in 1862 and 1863 for Cassell's Weekly Dispatch Atlas, trace the waterway with the Great Wall and the routes of Amherst and Macartney. Mayers, Dennys and King's Map of the Yang-tze-kiang, published in 1867 in The Treaty Ports of China and Japan, shows the canal beside the Yangtze.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"china-village-of-kya-kya-on-the-grand-canal-in-shandong-after-nieuhof-1746-p-6-072680","title":"CHINA. 'Village of Kya kya', on the Grand Canal in Shandong. 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He led the Macartney Embassy to Beijing in 1792) and of Lord Amherst (sent in 1816 as ambassador extraordinary to the court of China's Qing Dynasty, with a view of establishing more satisfactory commercial relations between that country and the United Kingdom). The \"best green tea district\" is marked. The Great Wall of China, with all its tributaries, is marked, along with the \"Grand or Imperial Canal\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50723272819035,"sku":"P-8-010193","price":41.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-010193a_513d8c75-8f32-4576-9ed1-a549e8b55b1c.jpg?v=1780948160"},{"product_id":"china-grand-canal-great-wall-amherst-macartney-routes-weller-1863-map-p-8-010434","title":"CHINA. Grand Canal. Great Wall. Amherst \u0026 Macartney routes. 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Poyang Lake, the Han River and Grand Canal show how central China’s producing regions connected with the coast. Published in 1867, it records the river only three years after the fall of the Taiping capital at Nanking. Article X of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin provided for foreign merchant navigation and river ports, but Taiping occupation delayed implementation. An Anglo-Chinese expedition reached Hankow in 1858, and British consulates opened at Chinkiang, Kiu-kiang and Hankow in 1861. By the mid-1860s steamers carried manufactures inland and tea down to Shanghai, negotiating seasonal water-level changes, shoals and wrecks. Dennys drew on Thomas Blakiston’s 1862 Yangtze account, although direct dependence on Blakiston’s route plan remains unproved. 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