Meaning of Chin-sha Chiang | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“At last he descended the Nan-kuang River and reached the right bank of the Great River, the local name of the Upper Zangtsze, at a point below Hsü-chou Fu, an im- portant city at the junction of the Min River and the Chin-sha Chiang, or River of Golden Sand.[…]From Ning-yüan, locally called Chien-ch‘ang, and lying in a valley famous, among other things, as the habitat of the white-wax insect, he passed southwest through the mountainous Cain-du of Marco Polo, inhabited in great part by Mantzŭ tribes, and struck the left bank of the Chin-sha Chiang two months after leaving Ch‘ung-ch‘ing.”

“The boundary between Tibet and China settled by the Manchu Emperor and the Tibetans in 1727 and lasting down to 1910 ran from the Mekong just north of A-t'un-tzu, crossed northward into the Chin-sha Chiang valley and followed the water divide between the Chin-sha and the upper Mekong sources to the Kokonor Territory.”

“From the confluence of its two headwaters in the upland of southern Tsinghai, it flows southward to western Szechwan as the Chin-sha Chiang; then, beyond the great bend in northwestern Yunnan it turns sharply to the east and traverses the whole length of Central China to the East China Sea.”

““We must cross the Chin-sha Chiang River,” Kublai said suddenly. He had pictured maps in his imagination, his recall almost perfect.”

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