Sanmenhsia

San-men-hsia English Etymology From en cmn 三門峽 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: San¹-mên²-hsia².cf. Sanmen Gorge, or (Wade-Giles romanization) San-men-hsia, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun en Sanmenxia. en 1964 November New Look at Changing China w:National Geographic Magazine https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1961/edg%20NG%201964-11%20126-5%20Nov/ 126 5 0027-9358 643483454 641 https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1961/edg%20NG%201964-11%20126-5%20Nov/page/n51/ 2 The silt-laden, unnavigable Huang many times has broken through its dikes and changed its course, bringing famine with flood. In recent years the Chinese have tried to harness its power by building giant hydroelectric dams, notably at Sanmenhsia in Honan Province and at Liuchia Gorge near Lanchow. But work came to a standstill with the departure of Russian engineers in 1960. en 1965 w:Chalmers Johnson Building a Communist Nation in China w:Robert A. Scalapino The Communist Revolution in Asia: Tactics, Goals, and Achievements https://archive.org/details/communistrevolut0000unse/ Englewood Cliffs, NJ w:Prentice-Hall 65-26708 398408 72 https://archive.org/details/communistrevolut0000unse/page/72/ In July, 1960, the dispute caused the Soviet Union to withdraw some 1,300 experts from China, crippling such enterprises as the Ch’angch’un automobile factory and the Sanmenhsia hydroelectric project (intended to produce the power for making fissionable materials). en 1975 Oleg Borisovich Borisov; Boris Trofimovich Koloskov Soviet-Chinese Relations, 1945-1970 https://archive.org/details/sovietchineserel00bori/ w:Indiana University Press 0-253-35410-2 74-31443 463014085 216 https://archive.org/details/sovietchineserel00bori/page/216/ Despite the tremendous need of many Chinese organizations for technical assistance, and despite repeated statements of Chinese representatives concerning “losses” supposedly suffered by China as a result of the recall of Soviet specialists, the government of the PRC forwarded only two such requests in all of 1961; one for four specialists to assist in the installation of the equipment in the Sanmenhsia hydroelectric plant, and one for seven specialists to instruct in the piloting of aircraft used in agriculture. en References