Kinsha Kiang

See also: Kin Sha Kiang

English

Etymology

From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).

Proper noun

Kinsha Kiang

1. Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang
   • 1899, William Jameson Reid, chapter I, in Through Unexplored Asia‎^[1], Boston: Dana Estes & Company, →OCLC, page 16:

     The original plan, strictly adhered to in our subsequent journeyings, provided that we should penetrate to the headwaters of the Kinsha Kiang, tributary of the Yangtse, and by a portage across the wild mountain fastnesses of Koko Nor descend to the source of the Hoang Ho, following its stream to the east- ward and to civilisation once more.

   • 1949, C. Raymond Beazley, chapter II, in The Dawn of Modern Geography‎^[2], volume III, New York: Peter Smith, →OCLC, page 111:

     We may conjecture that in this section of the route Marco worked down into the valley of the Kinsha Kiang, Upper Yangtse, or Brius; that his Sinugul is Siuchau at the confluence of the Min and the Kiang; and that he passed into the basin of the latter river in the neighbourhood of Tungchwan ⁶.

   • 1987, John Harris, “1923-1939”, in China Seas‎^[3], Arrow Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 305:

     The Yangtze Kiang was known to the Chinese as the Ta Chiang, or Great River, and changed its name more than once over its three thousand miles as it ran from Tibet into China; first the River of Golden Sand, then the Kinsha Kiang, then, as it deepened and boiled through its gorges to reach the sea, the Yangtze Kiang.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kinsha Kiang.