[1941 November, Edward T. Plitt, “"Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life"”, in The Outlook of Missions[1], volume XXXIII, number 10, Philadelphia, PA., →OCLC, page 304, column 1:
The group traveled by river junk to Santouping, sixty kilometers up river from Ichang, where Peng Hsi-chung lived until a short time ago.[…] Somehow he managed to secure enough food to keep alive and to get free rides in river junks and covered the distance of 120 kilometers from Santouping to Patung.]
So it is not surprising that, in this century, China's leaders should dream of harnessing the river, taming its floods and turning its raw power into electricity. And now, near the small town of Sandouping at the mouth of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, their dreams are slowly taking shape.
1998, Dai Qing, translated by Yi Ming, edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People[4], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:
The rural dwellers who will be moved are scattered throughout 19 counties and municipalities, from Sandouping in Yichang Municipality, to Mudong Township in Ba County.
The town of Sandouping in Xiling Gorge, now the site of the Three Gorges Dam, was known for a short time as "Little Wuhan" because of all the commercial activity generated by the thousands of people who stopped there on the way to Chongqing.
2009 January 8, John Kemp, “Downturn hits China's manufacturing heartland: John Kemp”, in Reuters[6], archived from the original on 27 August 2022, Columns[7]:
Even before the onset of the economic crisis, power availability was improving owing to the completion of the Three Gorges dam and the installation of the last of the massive generating turbines at Sandouping.
2011, Seamus O'Brien, “Tracing the seasons through Yichang and Badong”, in In the Footsteps of Augustine Henry and his Chinese Plant Collectors[8], Garden Art Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46, column 2:
Their passage through the rapids was uneventful, but one of the places Henry passed during the journey was a small village called Sandouping (then San-tou-p’ing), located 32 km (20 miles) above Yichang.
