"Chin-sha" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the Mandarin 金沙 (Jīnshā) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹.",
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          "ref": "1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The South China geographical environment”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22",
          "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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          "ref": "1982 [1975], Otto Braun, “On the Long March, 1934-1935”, in Jeanne Moore, transl., Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 [A Comintern Agent in China 1932-1939], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111",
          "text": "In view of the situation, however, there was little alternative but to withdraw to southern Kweichow and then to veer towards northeastern Yunnan to find a new crossing point on the Chin-sha, the upper course of the Yangtze.",
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          "ref": "1986, G. William Skinner, “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future, →OCLC, page 106; “Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China”, in The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future, 2nd edition, 1991, →OCLC, page 125",
          "text": "The Yun-Kwei region, a plateau in which virtually no rivers are navigable and all official and commercial transport moved by land, was defined to include the upper reaches of the Hung-shui (a tributary of the West River), of the Wu (a tributary of the Yangtze), and of the Chin-sha (as the Yangtze is known along its upper course) from approximately the point where each becomes unnavigable even for small junks.",
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