"Sha-shih" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì) Wade–Giles romanization: Sha¹-shih⁴.",
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          "text": "On November 17, the Consul having kindly offered me the use of his house-boat, I went down to Sha-shih, which is eighty miles from Ichang, and being with the current, the journey was made in one day.",
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          "ref": "1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10:",
          "text": "It is not till the Yangtze reaches Sha-shih that its character completely changes. The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation. Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting Lake being over 2000 square miles.",
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          "ref": "1908, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, A Wandering Student in the Far East, volume 1, William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 60:",
          "text": "Fortunately on this occasion the steam launch which had been sent forward to explore, at last hit upon an eight-foot passage, and by evening we reached the port of Sha-shih, where, owing to further reports of shallow water ahead, we anchored for the night.",
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          "text": "I-ch'ang (q.v.) and Shasi (Sha-shih) farther up the Yangtze in south central Hupeh are important provincial and commercial centres. South of Sha-shih is the Ch'ing-chiang (Kingkiang) flood detention basin or reservoir covering about 350 sq.mi.",
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          "text": "By the middle of June there had been additional disturbances at Chinkiang, Tan-yang, Wu-hsi and Soochow along the Grand Canal, and at Wu-hsueh, Kiukiang and Sha-shih on the Yangtze.",
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