# Chinsha
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 金沙 (Jīnshā), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-sha¹.

### Proper noun

Chinsha
* Alternative form of Jinsha (River in China)
** 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 165:Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.
** 1971, Dick Wilson, The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 116: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.
** 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: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.
** 1980, Audrey Topping, “Journey to Lhasa”, in The Splendors of Tibet‎, 1st edition, New York: SINO Publishing House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23: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.
** 2015, Bill Porter, “Dali”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211: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.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chinsha.
* Alternative form of Jinsha (Kinmen, Taiwan)
** 1958 September, Spencer Moosa, FIRST LEAD CHINESE‎, Associated Press Clippings, page 2845, column 2: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, Forrest Edwards, SECOND NIGHT LEAD CHINESE‎, Associated Press Clippings, page 2845, column 1:DISPATCHES FROM QUEMOY QUOTED A NATIONALIST OFFICIAL AS SAYING SEVEN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND 25 WOUNDED WHEN 900 SHELLS FELL ON THE SMALL TOWN OF CHINSHA ON QUEMOY MONDAY.
** 1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen‎, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, pages 23, 37: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.
** 1967, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎, number 19, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119: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 .
** 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 October 2022, 島嶼行旅: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.
** 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 October 2022, Around Taiwan: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.
** 1995, COA General Report‎, number 11, Council of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 150, column 2:The COA also rezoned 120 hectares of land in the Chinsha Rural Township of Kinmen County.
** 2009 December, “金門國家公園傳統建築活化多元利用與經濟效益評估”, in Kinmen National Park (金門國家公園管理處)‎, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2022, page XIV:Most villages provide adequate accommodation except Chinsha Township. For visitors, estimated WTP is 13,460.45 NTD per visit to Kinmen National Park.
** 2013 July 20, “City God Birthday Festival : Jinsha Shaobei – Kinmen Island”, in Visions of Travel‎ (Travel Blog), archived from the original on 17 February 2016‎:Cheng-Huang Miao (City God Temple) was built in every administrative center since Min Dynasty. There are three temples of the City God in Kinmen. Cheng-Huan in Tien-pu, Chinsha, is the oldest.
** 2016 April 15, “Areas of Jurisdiction”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office]‎, archived from the original on 19 May 2022‎:Six towns and townships make up Kinmen County namely, Chincheng Town, Chinhu Town, Chinsha Town, Chining Township, Lieyu Township, and Wuchio Township. The total land area is 150 square kilometers with a population of about 80,000.
** 2022 August 8, “TPC Chang Kong (II) Mailiao and Chinsha, Kinmen Wind Power Project – electrical and mechanical engineering design & construction design”, in 台灣機電工程服務社 TEMES‎, archived from the original on April 12, 2024, PROJECTS‎:TPC Chang Kong (II) Mailiao and Chinsha, Kinmen Wind Power Project – electrical and mechanical engineering design & construction design
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chinsha.

### See also

* Chinsha Chiang

### Further reading

* Burkhardt, Michael (2010 May) “Chinese Frequency Dictionary”, in TPS Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese‎, First edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 248, column 1: “金沙 [jīnshā] […] Chinsha town in Kinmen 金门县[Jīn mén xiàn] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan”