Citations:Chin-sha

English citations of Chin-sha

River

• 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The South China geographical environment”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

• 1982 [1975], Otto Braun, “On the Long March, 1934-1935”, in Jeanne Moore, transl., Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 [A Comintern Agent in China 1932-1939]‎, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:

  In view of the situation, however, there was little alternative but to withdraw to southern Kweichow and then to veer towards northeastern Yunnan to find a new crossing point on the Chin-sha, the upper course of the Yangtze.

• 1986, G. William Skinner, “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106; “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future‎, 2nd edition, 1991, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 125:

  The Yun-Kwei region, a plateau in which virtually no rivers are navigable and all official and commercial transport moved by land, was defined to include the upper reaches of the Hung-shui (a tributary of the West River), of the Wu (a tributary of the Yangtze), and of the Chin-sha (as the Yangtze is known along its upper course) from approximately the point where each becomes unnavigable even for small junks.

County

• 1968, Jerome Alan Cohen, The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction‎, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 476‎:

  Under the unifying arrangements of the Party committee the people’s procuracy of Chin-sha county took seven days’ time and handed over to the masses for debate the cases in which it had approved applications for arrest.

• 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China‎, numbers 439-447, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:

  In order to popularize the transplanting of rice seedlings with machines, Pi-chieh Prefecture held an on-the-spot meeting in Chin-sha County to publicize this method of transplanting.

Archaeological Site

• 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, “Ancient Fortifications, II”, in Ancient Chinese Warfare‎, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 52:

  Finally, an early Bronze Age site about four kilometers square has been discovered at Chin-sha, some thirty-eight kilometers west of San-hsing-tui.²⁶ Although the numerous artifacts and divinatory practices indicate strong Shang influence, Chin-sha has been interpreted as the center of another independent, peripheral people sufficiently powerful to challenge the Shang.