Chinsha Chiang

See also: Chin-sha Chiang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 金沙江 (Jīnshā Jiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹ Chiang¹.

Proper noun

Chinsha Chiang

1. Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang
   • 1952, Marion H. Duncan, “Westward to the Yangtze”, in The Yangtze and the Yak: Adventurous Trails In and Out of Tibet‎^[1], Alexandria, VA, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1961, Shou-Yi Ch'ên, “Early Ch'ing Prose”, in Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction‎^[2], New York: The Ronald Press Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1980, Ting Tsz Kao, “The Southern Border And The South Sea Archipelago”, in The Chinese Frontiers‎^[3], China Scholarly Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 252–253:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chinsha Chiang.