"Chin-sha-chiang" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1916 May, F. Kingdon Ward, “Further Geological Notes on the Land of Deep Corrosions”, in The Geological Magazine, number 623, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 211",
          "text": "It is much more likely that the Chin-sha-chiang (reserving this name for the southward-flowing upper portion of the Yangtze) did actually continue southwards past Likiang, being subsequently beheaded by the upper course of the eastward-flowing portion cutting back westwards; the southern portion of the Chin-sha-chiang, being thus isolated from its source, ultimately disappearing.",
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          "ref": "1946, James Hornell, “The Coracle in Asia”, in Water Transport: Origins & Early Evolution, David & Charles, published 1970, →OCLC, page 100",
          "text": "In a coracle of this form, Kingdon Ward (1913, 129) travelled 15 miles downstream from Batang on the Chin-sha-chiang, a tributary of the Yangtze; its length was barely 6 feet, the breadth 3 feet and the depth 5 feet.",
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          "ref": "1948, F. W. Thomas, “Introduction”, in Nam: An Ancient Language of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, pages 3–4",
          "text": "The great Ña(g)-chu, or Ya-lung river, which with its tributaries issues from the southern slopes of the Bayankara range and ultimately joins the Hbri-chu, now Chin-sha-chiang, on its left bank, has perhaps a more precipitous upper course.",
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          "ref": "1977, Kwang-chih Chang, “Early Civilizations in South China”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, 3rd edition, Yale University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 454",
          "text": "In this connection, Wu Chin-ting’s investigations during 1938-40 in Ta-li Hsien, in the Lake Erh and Tien-ts’ang Mountain area of western Yunnan a little way below the Chin-sha-chiang, are highly important.",
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