place
The Yangtze
the Yangtze
also: the River, 江
The great river of central and southern China, on whose lower reaches the states of Wu and Yue rose. In the text the very figure of inexhaustibility.
Reading notes
- The Art of War §5.2 the Yangtze
The great river of central China (the jiang, 江), on whose lower reaches Wu and Yue rose; paired with the sea as the figure of what cannot be drained.