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Chinsha
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Chin-sha Chin Sha
English
Etymology
From en cmn - ^金沙, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chin¹-sha¹.
Proper noun
en Jinsha (River in China)
en 1964 Yu-ti (zh 任育地) Jen zh:中国地理概述<t:A Concise Geography of China> https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/ Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 799178199 165 https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/page/165/ Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.
en 1971 Dick Wilson The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival https://archive.org/details/longmarch1935epi00wils/ New York w:Viking Press 0-670-43845-6 73-174663 219788716 116 https://archive.org/details/longmarch1935epi00wils/page/116/ The Chinsha was a formidable obstacle, falling from a height above sea level of some 8,200 feet at Paan or Batang on the Szechuan-Tibet border to less than 900 feet at Yipin, where it enters the Red Basin to become the Yangtze. From beginning to end, from the headwater in Chinghai to Yipin, the Chinsha River falls by an average of about eighteen feet per mile.
en 1976 April Nan-sheng Chang After the Tsunyi Meeting w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1976-04/ w:China Welfare Institute XXV 4 0009-4447 1554324 23 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1976-04/page/n24/ 1 TOWARD the end of April we reached the Yunnan-Kweichow border and pretended to be making for lightly-defended Kunming. Then the Red Army suddenly turned northwest, came to Chiaochetu on the Chinsha River (the upper Yangtze) and began to cross to its north bank. The Fifth Corps was to block the enemy at the Shihpan River and hold him off until the army had completed the Chinsha crossing.
en 1980 Audrey Topping Journey to Lhasa The Splendors of Tibet https://archive.org/details/splendorsoftibet00topp/ 1st New York SINO Publishing House 0-86519-003-8 80-21989 6735462 23 https://archive.org/details/splendorsoftibet00topp/page/23/ The Yangtze River, known in Tibet as the Chinsha (Upper Yangtze), rises from these perpetual snows and begins its plunging, serpentine descent through awesome gorges before it spreads its wings and sweeps across the alluvial plains of Central China.
en 2015 Bill Porter Dali South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China https://archive.org/details/southofcloudstra0000port/ 978-1-61902-719-0 914195322 211 https://archive.org/details/southofcloudstra0000port/page/211/ While the Great Khan led the attack from the north, he sent part of his forces to the west, and they surprised the Pai army by floating down the Chinsha River—the uppermost reaches of the Yangtze—on goatskin rafts and outflanking them.
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en Jinsha (Kinmen, Taiwan)
en 1958 September Spencer Moosa FIRST LEAD CHINESE https://archive.org/details/sim_associated-press-clippings-file-europe-disorders_1958-09/ Associated Press Clippings 2845 https://archive.org/details/sim_associated-press-clippings-file-europe-disorders_1958-09/page/n102/ 2 DISPATCHES FROM QUEMOY QUOTED LT. GEN. KO YUAN-FEN, THE ISLAND'S MAGISTRATE, AS SAYING THE REDS FIRED 900 SHELLS AT THE SMALL TOWN OF CHINSHA DURING THE RECORD 53,000-SHELL BOMBARDMENT MONDAY.
en 1958 September Forrest Edwards SECOND NIGHT LEAD CHINESE https://archive.org/details/sim_associated-press-clippings-file-europe-disorders_1958-09/ Associated Press Clippings 2845 https://archive.org/details/sim_associated-press-clippings-file-europe-disorders_1958-09/page/n102/ 1 DISPATCHES FROM QUEMOY QUOTED A NATIONALIST OFFICIAL AS SAYING SEVEN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND 25 WOUNDED WHEN 900 SHELLS FELL ON THE SMALL TOWN OF CHINSHA ON QUEMOY MONDAY.
en 1963 The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen https://books.google.com/books?id=baE7AAAAMAAJ w:Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction 460062180 23, 37 a) Strengthening the organization of fishermen by reorganizing the Kinmen county fishermen's association and establishing five new township FA's at Chinhu, Chinsha,subsidy of NT$800,000, the Wuyi Dam was built on Chinsha stream, measuring 6.8 meters in height and 10 meters in length, with a left canal 1.2 km. long, and the right one, 3.1 km.
en 1967 General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=r-TLwsDSu3oC w:Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction 19 0447-8193 1640460 119 In the year under review the Kinmen Agricultural Experiment Station carried out a series of tests on cultural and varietal48 and 60 to be the ideal varieties for spring and fall planting at Chinning and Chinsha, respectively .
en 1991 September 光華 Sinorama https://books.google.com/books?id=83lDAAAAYAAJ 16 7-12 w:Government Information Office 0256-9043 20549278 15 journal 1991 Chin-ju Chang Kinmen Changes into its Civvies 台灣光華雜誌<t:Taiwan Panorama> Peter Eberly https://web.archive.org/web/20221020180113/https://www.taiwan-panorama.com/Articles/Details?Guid=83a4e3f7-744d-498f-9ba6-4a1773944740&langId=3 20 October 2022 島嶼行旅 https://archive.ph/nHgzB Soldiers Spark a Shopping Strip: Chinhu Village, located in the southeast of the island, out of the range of the Communists' artillery shells and protected by Mt. Taiwu, was just a place of windblown rock and sand without any road to the outside, before 1958. Later, people from Chinsha and Chinning to the north started moving in, and thanks to the purchasing power of the troops stationed at Mt. Taiwu, Chungcheng Rd. and Fuhsing Rd.now bristle with two or three hundred stores--the local people call the shopping strip "Shanwai" or "over the mountain"--and Chinhu has become the latest area of prosperity on the island.
en 1994 April 光華 Sinorama https://books.google.com/books?id=GIRDAAAAYAAJ 19 1-6 w:Government Information Office 0256-9043 20549278 journal 1994 Yuan-ching Cheng Kinmen- -From Battlefield to Tourist Destination 台灣光華雜誌<t:Taiwan Panorama> Robert Taylor https://web.archive.org/web/20221021103917/https://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/Articles/Details?Guid=c9335c12-7ec3-40e7-96be-33a81416a223 21 October 2022 Around Taiwan The largest number of wind lions in any one area is in Chinsha Township in the northeastern corner of Kinmen, which has 39 wind lions.Kinmen's wind lions are not hard to find. If you follow the main road around the north of the island, you can see many standing by the roadside; or else you can look around the villages of Chinsha Township, such as Yangchai (which has four wind lions), Houshuitou or Shamei (which have three wind lions each).The Kinmen Folk Village at Shanhou Village in Chinsha Township is a well-known tourist attraction.
en 1995 COA General Report https://books.google.com/books?id=RGJRAQAAMAAJ w:Council of Agriculture 11 32833482 150 2 The COA also rezoned 120 hectares of land in the Chinsha Rural Township of Kinmen County.
en 2009 December 金門國家公園傳統建築活化多元利用與經濟效益評估 Kinmen National Park (zh 金門國家公園管理處) https://web.archive.org/web/20221020141347/https://npda.cpami.gov.tw/media_src/files/34/23134/Cpami-kmnp-bk-mcpr0027-0001.pdf 20 October 2022 1191810217 XIV Most villages provide adequate accommodation except Chinsha Township. For visitors, estimated WTP is 13,460.45 NTD per visit to Kinmen National Park.
en July 20, 2013 City God Birthday Festival : Jinsha Shaobei – Kinmen Island Visions of Travel https://web.archive.org/web/20160217023124/https://www.visionsoftravel.org/city-god-birthday-festival-kinmen-island/ 17 February 2016 Travel Blog Cheng-Huang Miao (City God Temple) was built in every administrative center since Min Dynasty. There are three temples of the City God in Kinmen. Cheng-Huan in Tien-pu, Chinsha, is the oldest.
en 2016-04-15 Areas of Jurisdiction zh:福建金門地方檢察署 Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office https://web.archive.org/web/20220519191234/https://www.kmc.moj.gov.tw/292089/292378/292382/566434/post 19 May 2022 Six towns and townships make up Kinmen County namely, Chincheng Town, Chinhu Town, Chinsha Town, Chining Township, Lieyu Township, and Wuchio Township. The total land area is 150 square kilometers with a population of about 80,000.
en 08/08/2022 TPC Chang Kong (II) Mailiao and Chinsha, Kinmen Wind Power Project – electrical and mechanical engineering design & construction design zh 台灣機電工程服務社 TEMES https://web.archive.org/web/20240412011926/https://www.temes.com.tw/en/work-detail/USA__15/ April 12, 2024 https://www.temes.com.tw/en/work-detail/USA__15/ PROJECTS TPC Chang Kong (II) Mailiao and Chinsha, Kinmen Wind Power Project – electrical and mechanical engineering design & construction design
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See also
en Chinsha Chiang
Further reading
en 2010 May Burkhardt Michael Chinese Frequency Dictionary TPS Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese https://books.google.com/books?id=vCxOAgAAQBAJ First 978-0-557-45311-5 726836290 248 https://www.google.com/books/edition/TPS_Frequency_Dictionary_of_Mandarin_Chi/vCxOAgAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PA248 1 金沙 [jīnshā]Chinsha town in Kinmen 金门县[Jīn mén xiàn] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan