Chin-sha Chiang

Chinsha Chiang English Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of cmn 金沙江 Wade-Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹ Chiang¹.Jinsha River, (Wade-Giles romanization) Chin-sha Chiang, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun Chin-sha Chiang 1 en Jinsha Jiang. en October 8, 1885 SECTION E—GEOGRAPHY Nature (journal) Nature https://archive.org/details/sim_nature-uk_1885-10-08_32_832/ 32 832 0028-0836 01586310 564 https://archive.org/details/sim_nature-uk_1885-10-08_32_832/page/564/ 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. 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 1967 Chang-tu Hu; et al. Geography, People, and Natural Resources Chinese Society under Communism: A Reader https://archive.org/details/chinesesocietyun0000liuw/ w:John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 66-29625 260236 20 https://archive.org/details/chinesesocietyun0000liuw/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. en 2011 w:Conn Iggulden 14 Conqueror (Iggulden novel) Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan https://archive.org/details/conquerornovelof0000iggu/ Fiction New York w:Delacorte Press 978-0-385-34305-3 2011029727 713188550 135 https://archive.org/details/conquerornovelof0000iggu/page/135/ “We must cross the Chin-sha Chiang River,” Kublai said suddenly. He had pictured maps in his imagination, his recall almost perfect. en References