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00:00:00 Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydro-electric dam in the world. That it is a sheer engineering marvel cannot be denied. Yet questions abound over environmental and social issues, not to mention logistics problems of moving ships up and down river. An ingenious system of shiplocks has gone towards solving that problem, echoing the techniques of Banaue farmers in the Philippines who mastered the art of managing water over two thousand years ago.

00:22:26 Beijing Airport
The largest airport terminal in the world in Beijing is an engineering marvel that nonetheless pays strict adherence to the principles of Chinese fengshui, and marks a new footnote in an age-old tradition of building big. To understand how far that tradition has progressed, we explore the Todai-ji temple in Nara, designed and built by a Chinese monk, which today remains the world’s largest wooden building.
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