"Chin-sha Chiang" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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