Chin-sha Chiang

See also: Chinsha Chiang

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹ Chiang¹.

Proper noun

Chin-sha Chiang

1. Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang.
   • 1885 October 8, “SECTION E—GEOGRAPHY”, in Nature‎^[1], volume 32, number 832, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 564, column 2:

     At last he descended the Nan-kuang River and reached the right bank of the Great River, the local name of the Upper Zangtsze, at a point below Hsü-chou Fu, an im- portant city at the junction of the Min River and the Chin-sha Chiang, or River of Golden Sand. […] From Ning-yüan, locally called Chien-ch‘ang, and lying in a valley famous, among other things, as the habitat of the white-wax insect, he passed southwest through the mountainous Cain-du of Marco Polo, inhabited in great part by Mantzŭ tribes, and struck the left bank of the Chin-sha Chiang two months after leaving Ch‘ung-ch‘ing.

   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The South China geographical environment”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[2], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:

     The boundary between Tibet and China settled by the Manchu Emperor and the Tibetans in 1727 and lasting down to 1910 ran from the Mekong just north of A-t'un-tzu, crossed northward into the Chin-sha Chiang valley and followed the water divide between the Chin-sha and the upper Mekong sources to the Kokonor Territory.

   • 1967, Chang-tu Hu et al., “Geography, People, and Natural Resources”, in Chinese Society under Communism: A Reader‎^[3], John Wiley and Sons, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:

     From the confluence of its two headwaters in the upland of southern Tsinghai, it flows southward to western Szechwan as the Chin-sha Chiang; then, beyond the great bend in northwestern Yunnan it turns sharply to the east and traverses the whole length of Central China to the East China Sea.

   • 2011, Conn Iggulden, chapter 14, in Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan‎^[4] (Fiction), New York: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:

     “We must cross the Chin-sha Chiang River,” Kublai said suddenly. He had pictured maps in his imagination, his recall almost perfect.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chin-sha Chiang.