Hsi-sha

Hsisha English Etymology From en cmn 西沙 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsi¹-sha¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Xisha. en 28 March 1963 1962 Ch'en Tung-k'ang (7115 2767 1660)<t:zh 陳棟康> Our Country's South Sea Archipelagoes Wu Han (0702 2498)<t:zh 吳晗> Our Country's South Sea Archipelagoes https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030770450&seq=783 Wo-kuo Ti Nan-hai Chu-taoChun-tao, Pei-ping, 1962, pages 1-32 zh w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 11092183 3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030770450&seq=788 The group in the west is called the Hsi-sha Islands. It is located to the southeast of the Hainan Island, about 330 kilometers from the famous fishing bay of the Hainan Island, the Yu-lin Bay. It is composed of a large group of islands, islets, shoals, and reefs. en 1964 Theodore Shabad CHINA SEA w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri05univ/ 5 263100718 612 https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri05univ/page/612/ 2 Unlike the East China sea, which is devoid of islands, the South China sea is speckled with a vast number of islands and reefs. These are part of the Pratas group (Tung-sha) the Paracel (Hsi-sha Ch’ün-tao group), Macclesfield (Chung-sha bank), and the Spratly (Nan-sha group), all of which are claimed by the People's Republic of China. en 1979 Problems with Socialist Countries King C. Chen China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader https://archive.org/details/chinathreeworlds0000unse/ w:M.E. Sharpe 0-87332-118-9 78-51973 924852082 273 https://archive.org/details/chinathreeworlds0000unse/page/273/ Since then, there have been disputes over the question of ownership of the Hsi-sha and Nan-sha islands. The navy of the Nguyen Van Thieu Regime even fought with us at Hsi-sha, ending in a disastrous defeat for them. The Chiang Kai-shek clique now occupies some of the Nan-sha islands. en