Sha-shih

English thumb|Map including zh 沙市 SHA-SHIH (SHASI) (Army Map Service AMS, 1953) Etymology From en cmn 沙市 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Sha¹-shih⁴.en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 361 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/361/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesShasi (Shashi, Shashih) Proper noun 1 1 en Shashi. en https://archive.org/details/yangtzevalleybey00bird_0/ 1892 To the Snows of Tibet through China Sha-shih and Pa-chow w:Antwerp Edgar Pratt w:Longmans, Green, and Co. 54 https://archive.org/details/tosnowsoftibetth00prat/page/54/ On November 17, the Consul having kindly offered me the use of his house-boat, I went down to Sha-shih, which is eighty miles from Ichang, and being with the current, the journey was made in one day. en 1900 w:Isabella L. Bird The Yangtze Valley and Beyond https://archive.org/details/yangtzevalleybey00bird_0/ 1 1181731179 14622424M 9–10 https://archive.org/details/yangtzevalleybey00bird_0/page/9/ It is not till the Yangtze reaches Sha-shih that its character completely changes. The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation. Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting Lake being over 2000 square miles. en 1908 w:Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland A Wandering Student in the Far East https://archive.org/details/awanderingstude00zetlgoog/ 1 w:William Blackwood and Sons 4811179 60 https://archive.org/details/awanderingstude00zetlgoog/page/n97 Fortunately on this occasion the steam launch which had been sent forward to explore, at last hit upon an eight-foot passage, and by evening we reached the port of Sha-shih, where, owing to further reports of shallow water ahead, we anchored for the night. en 1968 HUPEH w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita11chic/ 11 68-10064 1036882 902 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita11chic/page/n935/ 1 I-ch'ang (q.v.) and Shasi (Sha-shih) farther up the Yangtze in south central Hupeh are important provincial and commercial centres. South of Sha-shih is the Ch'ing-chiang (Kingkiang) flood detention basin or reservoir covering about 350 sq.mi. en 1976 Charlton M. Lewis Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907 https://archive.org/details/prologuetochines0000lewi/ 0-674-71441-5 76-25491 993364350 16 https://archive.org/details/prologuetochines0000lewi/page/16 By the middle of June there had been additional disturbances at Chinkiang, Tan-yang, Wu-hsi and Soochow along the Grand Canal, and at Wu-hsueh, Kiukiang and Sha-shih on the Yangtze. en Translations Shashi References Further reading Anagrams en ahhhiss hashish shishah