Chin-sha

Chinsha Chin Sha English Etymology From the en cmn ^金沙 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chin¹-sha¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Jinsha (River in China) en 1954 Herold J. Wiens The South China geographical environment Han Chinese Expansion in South China https://archive.org/details/hanchineseexpans0000wien/ Shoe String Press 1967 67-16409 473651484 24127509M 22 https://archive.org/details/hanchineseexpans0000wien/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. en 1982 1975 Otto Braun On the Long March, 1934-1935 Jeanne Moore Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 A Comintern Agent in China 1932-1939 https://archive.org/details/cominternagentin0000brau/ Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1138-0 81-85452 8941727 111 https://archive.org/details/cominternagentin0000brau/page/113/ In view of the situation, however, there was little alternative but to withdraw to southern Kweichow and then to veer towards northeastern Yunnan to find a new crossing point on the Chin-sha, the upper course of the Yangtze. en 1986 w:G. William Skinner Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future https://archive.org/details/chineseadaptingp0000unse/ 0-89264-071-5 14639317 106 https://archive.org/details/chineseadaptingp0000unse/page/106/ 1991 Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future https://archive.org/details/chineseadaptingp0000unse_i4r6/ 2nd 0-89264-100-2 23901055 125 https://archive.org/details/chineseadaptingp0000unse_i4r6/page/125/ The Yun-Kwei region, a plateau in which virtually no rivers are navigable and all official and commercial transport moved by land, was defined to include the upper reaches of the Hung-shui (a tributary of the West River), of the Wu (a tributary of the Yangtze), and of the Chin-sha (as the Yangtze is known along its upper course) from approximately the point where each becomes unnavigable even for small junks. en See also en Chin-sha Chiang