Chinsha Chiang

Chin-sha Chiang English Etymology From en cmn - 金沙江 Jīnshā Jiāng, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chin¹-sha¹ Chiang¹. Proper noun Chinsha Chiang en Jinsha Jiang. en 1952 Marion H. Duncan Westward to the Yangtze The Yangtze and the Yak: Adventurous Trails In and Out of Tibet https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2981/ Alexandria, VA 2451984 3 https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2981/page/3/ For the remainder of its mountainous course the Yangtze, as the Chinsha Chiang or River of Golden Sand, continues to step downward by furious rapids in a great half-circle of eight hundred miles before leaving the Tibetan Plateau to enter the heavily cultivated Chinese farms of the Red Basin. en 1961 Shou-Yi Ch'ên Early Ch'ing Prose Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction https://archive.org/details/chineseliteratur2004chen/ New York The Ronald Press Company 61-9426 288383 559 https://archive.org/details/chineseliteratur2004chen/page/559/ Going ahead on foot he finally came in the following year to Chinsha Chiang (River of the Golden Sand) where he made a very important geographical discovery, namely, that this Golden Sand River was actually the upper reaches of the great Yangtze. en 1980 Ting Tsz Kao The Southern Border And The South Sea Archipelago The Chinese Frontiers https://archive.org/details/chinesefrontiers0000ting/ China Scholarly Publishing Company 80-67540 7795049 252–253 https://archive.org/details/chinesefrontiers0000ting/page/252/ Adding to the singularity of this physical formation is the Chinsha Chiang, which furrows a zigzag course on the northern section of the province before it flows into Szechuan to be the main tributary of the Yangtse River.Gold production has not been abundant, though the Chinsha Chiang earns the name of a rich connotation. en