Chinsha

The Chinsha was a formidable obstacle, falling from a height above sea level of some 8,200 feet at Paan or Batang on the Szechuan-Tibet border to less than 900 feet at Yipin, where it enters the Red Basin to become the Yangtze. From beginning to end, from the headwater in Chinghai to Yipin, the Chinsha River falls by an average of about eighteen feet per mile.

1971, Dick Wilson, The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 116

TOWARD the end of April we reached the Yunnan-Kweichow border and pretended to be making for lightly-defended Kunming. Then the Red Army suddenly turned northwest, came to Chiaochetu on the Chinsha River (the upper Yangtze) and began to cross to its north bank. The Fifth Corps was to block the enemy at the Shihpan River and hold him off until the army had completed the Chinsha crossing.

1976 April, Nan-sheng Chang, “After the Tsunyi Meeting”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 1

The Yangtze River, known in Tibet as the Chinsha (Upper Yangtze), rises from these perpetual snows and begins its plunging, serpentine descent through awesome gorges before it spreads its wings and sweeps across the alluvial plains of Central China.

1980, Audrey Topping, “Journey to Lhasa”, in The Splendors of Tibet, 1st edition, New York: SINO Publishing House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23

While the Great Khan led the attack from the north, he sent part of his forces to the west, and they surprised the Pai army by floating down the Chinsha River—the uppermost reaches of the Yangtze—on goatskin rafts and outflanking them.

2015, Bill Porter, “Dali”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211

DISPATCHES FROM QUEMOY QUOTED LT. GEN. KO YUAN-FEN, THE ISLAND'S MAGISTRATE, AS SAYING THE REDS FIRED 900 SHELLS AT THE SMALL TOWN OF CHINSHA DURING THE RECORD 53,000-SHELL BOMBARDMENT MONDAY.

1958 September, Spencer Moosa, FIRST LEAD CHINESE, Associated Press Clippings, page 2845, column 2

a) Strengthening the organization of fishermen by reorganizing the Kinmen county fishermen's association and establishing five new township FA's at Chinhu, Chinsha,[…] subsidy of NT$800,000, the Wuyi Dam was built on Chinsha stream, measuring 6.8 meters in height and 10 meters in length, with a left canal 1.2 km. long, and the right one, 3.1 km.

1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, pages 23, 37

In the year under review the Kinmen Agricultural Experiment Station carried out a series of tests on cultural and varietal[…]48 and 60 to be the ideal varieties for spring and fall planting at Chinning and Chinsha, respectively .

1967, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, number 19, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119

Soldiers Spark a Shopping Strip: Chinhu Village, located in the southeast of the island, out of the range of the Communists' artillery shells and protected by Mt. Taiwu, was just a place of windblown rock and sand without any road to the outside, before 1958. Later, people from Chinsha and Chinning to the north started moving in, and thanks to the purchasing power of the troops stationed at Mt. Taiwu, Chungcheng Rd. and Fuhsing Rd.now bristle with two or three hundred stores--the local people call the shopping strip "Shanwai" or "over the mountain"--and Chinhu has become the latest area of prosperity on the island.

Taiwan Panorama

1991 September, Chin-ju Chang, 光華 [Sinorama], volume 16, numbers 7-12, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15; republished as “Kinmen Changes into its Civvies”, in Peter Eberly, transl., 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama], 1991, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022, 島嶼行旅

The largest number of wind lions in any one area is in Chinsha Township in the northeastern corner of Kinmen, which has 39 wind lions.[…] Kinmen's wind lions are not hard to find. If you follow the main road around the north of the island, you can see many standing by the roadside; or else you can look around the villages of Chinsha Township, such as Yangchai (which has four wind lions), Houshuitou or Shamei (which have three wind lions each).[…] The Kinmen Folk Village at Shanhou Village in Chinsha Township is a well-known tourist attraction.

Taiwan Panorama

1994 April, Yuan-ching Cheng, 光華 [Sinorama], volume 19, numbers 1-6, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished as “Kinmen- -From Battlefield to Tourist Destination”, in Robert Taylor, transl., 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama], 1994, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022, Around Taiwan