Citations:Sha-shih

English citations of Sha-shih

Map including 沙市 SHA-SHIH (SHASI) (AMS, 1953)

• 1892, Antwerp Edgar Pratt, “Sha-shih and Pa-chow”, in To the Snows of Tibet through China‎^[1], Longmans, Green, and Co., page 54:

  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.

• 1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond‎^[2], volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10:

  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.

• 1908, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, A Wandering Student in the Far East‎^[3], volume 1, William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 60:

  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.

• [1944, Daniel Nelson, An English — Chinese Romanized Dictionary [英漢國語字典]‎^[4], Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, →OCLC, page 287:

  Shasi 沙市 sa¹ shih⁴]

• 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[5], volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:

  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.

• 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907‎^[6], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

  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.