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 | | At the center of this lay Jiankang, the center of an extensive network of rivers and canals that converged on the lower Yangtze. |
 | | Jiankang also exerted a less powerful central hold over the constituent parts of the state, exercising an uneasy control over a string of pearls -- Guiji, Jiankang, Jiangling -- which in a world of regionalism and fluid wealth it bound only loosely together. |
 | | Later in his life, when down in Jiankang he attempted to don the garb of an emperor, Hou was asked by his Chinese scribe, Wang Wei, for the last seven generations of his forebears for the ancestral hall. |
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