Yangzhou

Yangzhou, city, southwest-central Jiangsu province (sheng), eastern China. It lies to the north of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) at the southern terminus of the section of the Grand Canal that joins the Huai River to the Yangtze. Pop. (2002 est.) 548,204. In the 4th and 3rd centuries bce, Yangzhou was a fief known as Guangling in the state of Chu. After the Qin unification of the empire in 221 bce, it became the seat...