Citations:Kinsha

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English citations of Kinsha

River in China

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  • 1933 December 2, “Tibetan Troops Renew Attack on Sikong”, in The China Weekly Review[1], volume 67, number 1, →OCLC, page 32, column 2:
    Szechuen troops defending recognized Chinese territory against the raids of the Tibetans declare that by crossing the Kinsha River the forces of the Da Lai Lama have violated the recent truce. The truce established the stream as the boundary between Tibet and China Proper.
  • 1972, G. Kenneth Whitehead, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
    The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.
  • 1993, “Translator's Notes”, in Joseph R. Allen, transl., Forbidden Games & Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Chʻing[3], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 399:
    Mount O-mei is on the upper reaches of the Yangtze and is a famous site for Buddhist pilgrimages. The Kinsha is the source river for the Yangtze.

In Kinmen, Taiwan

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  • 1980 January, 光華 [Sinorama]‎[4], volume 5, numbers 1-6, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11; republished as Kinmen: A Defiant Outpost for Free China[5], 1980, archived from the original on 21 October 2022, 島嶼行旅:
    Lee Hsi-chi, a native of Kinmen, is one of the pioneers in Taiwan's modern art movement. He was pleased to hear that the Kinmen County Government was planning to rebuild 18 ancient houses in Shanhou near Kinsha Town to form a folk village. []
    The Kinmen County Government has invited specialists to collect all records related to the style of traditional architecture to transform the block of houses in Shanhou near Kinsha Town into a museum.
  • 1992, COA General Report[6], number 7, Council of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 144, column 1:
    The COA undertook reclamation of 110 hectares of land in the Wukang district of Kinsha Township in Kinmen County, building or repairing four hundred meters of stone irrigation ditch , three culverts , and 2,535 square meters of mud []
  • 1997, Summary of World Broadcasts Asia, Pacific[7], numbers 2832-2843, British Broadcasting Corporation, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
    Earlier in the day, Li also paid a visit to the Kinsha Township Administration Office, the newly inaugurated Kinmen Forest Park and toured a plot of land earmarked for a new desalinization plant.