Kin-sha Kiang

Kinsha Kiang Kin Sha Kiang English Etymology From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of cmn 金沙江. Proper noun Kin-sha Kiang en Jinsha Jiang. en 1894 w:Albert Terrien de Lacouperie Mo-So Hieroglyphical Writing of Tibeo-China Beginnings of Writing in Central and Eastern Asia, or, Notes on 450 Embryo-Writings and Scripts https://archive.org/details/cu31924023345782/ London w:D. Nutt 1123642523 50 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023345782/page/n57/ In these days the Mo-so of the south, i.e. those who reside about Li-Kiang on the borders of the Kin-sha Kiang, and about Wei-si and Aten-tze on the Lan-tsang Kiang, being Chinese subjects, use exclusively the Chinese characters. en 1904 w:Hugh Clifford The Shan States and Yun-nan Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China https://archive.org/details/b29351820/ London Lawrence & Bullen Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 5397533 246 https://archive.org/details/b29351820/page/288/ On the following day the waters of the Kin-sha Kiang, the upper branch of the Yang-tse, were seen near their junction with the Li-tang Ho, 1,800 feet below the track cut in the mountain-side, and the explorers had the delight of thinking that, since the days of Marco Polo, no white men had looked upon this river at a point so far distant from the coast. On February 1st the Kin-sha Kiang was crossed by ferry, and the province of Se-Chuan was entered. en 1904 T. R. Jernigan Family Law China's Business Methods and Policy https://archive.org/details/chinasbusinessm01jerngoog/ London w:T. Fisher Unwin 561413042 150 https://archive.org/details/chinasbusinessm01jerngoog/page/n160/ Such practices are ascribed to many nations. Martini quotes something similar from a Chinese author about tribes in Yunnan ; and Gamier says such loose practices are still ascribed to the Sifan near the southern elbow of Kin-sha Kiang.Mr. Cooper's Journal, when on the banks of the Kin-sha Kiang, west of Bathang, affords a startling illustration of the persistence of manners in this region. en