"Kin-sha Kiang" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1894, Albert Terrien de Lacouperie, “Mo-So Hieroglyphical Writing of Tibeo-China”, in Beginnings of Writing in Central and Eastern Asia, or, Notes on 450 Embryo-Writings and Scripts, London: D. Nutt, →OCLC, page 50",
          "text": "In these days the Mo-so of the south, i.e. those who reside about Li-Kiang on the borders of the Kin-sha Kiang, and about Wei-si and Aten-tze on the Lan-tsang Kiang, being Chinese subjects, use exclusively the Chinese characters.",
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          "ref": "1904, Hugh Clifford, “The Shan States and Yun-nan”, in Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., →OCLC, page 246",
          "text": "On the following day the waters of the Kin-sha Kiang, the upper branch of the Yang-tse, were seen near their junction with the Li-tang Ho, 1,800 feet below the track cut in the mountain-side, and the explorers had the delight of thinking that, since the days of Marco Polo, no white men had looked upon this river at a point so far distant from the coast. On February 1st the Kin-sha Kiang was crossed by ferry, and the province of Se-Chuan was entered.",
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          "ref": "1904, T. R. Jernigan, “Family Law”, in China's Business Methods and Policy, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 150",
          "text": "Such practices are ascribed to many nations. Martini quotes something similar from a Chinese author about tribes in Yunnan ; and Gamier says such loose practices are still ascribed to the Sifan near the southern elbow of Kin-sha Kiang.[…]Mr. Cooper's Journal, when on the banks of the Kin-sha Kiang, west of Bathang, affords a startling illustration of the persistence of manners in this region.",
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        "Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang"
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  "etymology_text": "From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of 金沙江 (Jīnshājiāng).",
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          "ref": "1894, Albert Terrien de Lacouperie, “Mo-So Hieroglyphical Writing of Tibeo-China”, in Beginnings of Writing in Central and Eastern Asia, or, Notes on 450 Embryo-Writings and Scripts, London: D. Nutt, →OCLC, page 50",
          "text": "In these days the Mo-so of the south, i.e. those who reside about Li-Kiang on the borders of the Kin-sha Kiang, and about Wei-si and Aten-tze on the Lan-tsang Kiang, being Chinese subjects, use exclusively the Chinese characters.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1904, Hugh Clifford, “The Shan States and Yun-nan”, in Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., →OCLC, page 246",
          "text": "On the following day the waters of the Kin-sha Kiang, the upper branch of the Yang-tse, were seen near their junction with the Li-tang Ho, 1,800 feet below the track cut in the mountain-side, and the explorers had the delight of thinking that, since the days of Marco Polo, no white men had looked upon this river at a point so far distant from the coast. On February 1st the Kin-sha Kiang was crossed by ferry, and the province of Se-Chuan was entered.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1904, T. R. Jernigan, “Family Law”, in China's Business Methods and Policy, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 150",
          "text": "Such practices are ascribed to many nations. Martini quotes something similar from a Chinese author about tribes in Yunnan ; and Gamier says such loose practices are still ascribed to the Sifan near the southern elbow of Kin-sha Kiang.[…]Mr. Cooper's Journal, when on the banks of the Kin-sha Kiang, west of Bathang, affords a startling illustration of the persistence of manners in this region.",
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      ],
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