Nan-sha

See also: Nansha and Nánshā

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 南沙 (Nánshā) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-sha¹.

Proper noun

Nan-sha

1. Alternative form of Nansha
   • 1974 January 23, “Chinese Defend Hsi-sha Islands”, in East/West [東西報]‎^[1], volume 8, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 4:

     The Hsi-sha and Nan-sha Islands have been fishing areas for Chinese fishermen for a long time.

   • 1975 April 7, “Sino-Malaysian Territorial Disagreement”, in Staff Notes: East Asia‎^[2], CIA, published 2001, page 5:

     Tseng-mu Reef is described in Peking publications as "the southernmost part of China" and within the Nan-sha (Spratly) group of islands.

   • 1979, “Problems with Socialist Countries”, in King C. Chen, editor, China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader‎^[3], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 273:

     Since then, there have been disputes over the question of ownership of the Hsi-sha and Nan-sha islands. The navy of the Nguyen Van Thieu Regime even fought with us at Hsi-sha, ending in a disastrous defeat for them. The Chiang Kai-shek clique now occupies some of the Nan-sha islands.

   • [1982, Agatha S.Y. Wong-Fraser, “People's Republic of China”, in James Everett Katz, Onkar S Marwah, editors, Nuclear Power in Developing Countries‎^[4], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 119–120:

     Since 1966, extensive offshore reserves in the continental shelf—stretching from the Yellow Sea as far as Hsi-Sha (Paracel) and Nan-Sha (Spratley) Islands in the South China Sea—have been reported in official Chinese statements,³ reinforcing the long-maintained claim that the PRC holds the third-largest oil and gas reserves in the world.⁴]

Translations

Nansha — see Nansha

Anagrams

• Hanans, Anshan, shanna, An-shan, Hannas, Shanna