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.
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.
