Citations:Chinshachiang

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English citations of Chinshachiang

  • 1890 October 10, “Suspension Bridge in Yunnan”, in North-China Herald[1], volume XLV, number 1210, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 434, column 3:
    In bringing the above to the notice of the Throne, the Governor-General of Yünnan and Kueichow states that the bridge thus erected on the upper waters of the Tsuli or Chinshachiang is constructed of iron chains slung across the river and planked over, provided with a parapet and roofed in overhead.
  • 1958 December, Cordwainer Smith, “Western Science is so Wonderful”, in If[2], volume 9, number 1, →OCLC, page 82, columns 1, 2:
    Three weeks later Farrer was climbing up past the small cascades which led to the River of the Golden Sands, the Chinshachiang, as the Long River or Yangtze was known locally. []
    Far below them all the thread of the Chinshachiang was woven like a single strand of gold into the gray- green of the twilight valley floor.
  • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China[3], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 426:
    In this connection, Wu Chin-ting’s investigations during 1938-40 in Ta-li Hsien, in the Lake Erh and Tients’ang Mountain area of western Yunnan a little way below the Chinshachiang, are highly important.