Citations:Chin-sha Chiang

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English citations of Chin-sha Chiang

  • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The South China geographical environment”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
    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.
  • 1967, Chang-tu Hu et al., “Geography, People, and Natural Resources”, in Chinese Society under Communism: A Reader[2], John Wiley and Sons, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:
    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.
  • 2011, Conn Iggulden, chapter 14, in Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan[3] (Fiction), New York: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
    “We must cross the Chin-sha Chiang River,” Kublai said suddenly. He had pictured maps in his imagination, his recall almost perfect.