Coordinates: 30°18′58″N 112°15′07″E / 30.31611°N 112.25194°E / 30.31611; 112.25194

Shashi, Jingzhou

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Shashi
沙すな市区しく
Shasi
District
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Jingzhou Wanshou Pagoda
Shashi is located in Hubei
Shashi
Shashi
Location in Hubei
Coordinates (Shashi Zhongshan Park (沙すな市し市し中山なかやま公こう园)): 30°18′58″N 112°15′07″E / 30.31611°N 112.25194°E / 30.31611; 112.25194
CountryChina
ProvinceHubei
Prefecture-level cityJingzhou
District seatChongwen Subdistrict
Area
 • Total522.75 km2 (201.83 sq mi)
Population
 (2020 census)[1]
 • Total563,398
 • Density1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.shashi.gov.cn

Shashi (Chinese: 沙すな市し; pinyin: Shāshì) is a district within the main urban area of Jingzhou, Hubei province, China. It is located on the left (northern) bank of the Yangtze River, between Yichang and Wuhan.

History

Shashi was founded during the Warring States period as an extension of the Chu capital Ying, its port on the Yangtze.

In modern history it is notable as one of the four ports specified to be opened to the Empire of Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki (17 April 1895, which also ended Chinese imperial claims to Korea). The treaty port grew rapidly into because of this, gaining the moniker of "Little Hankow".[2] Nonetheless, the opening of other coastal ports led to trade moving elsewhere and it gradually declined.

In 1994 it lost its status as a city and was combined with Jingzhou to form Jingsha city.[3]

Administrative divisions

Map including Shashi (labeled as SHA-SHIH (SHASI) 沙すな市し) (1953)

Shashi District administers 6 subdistricts and 4 towns:[4]

Subdistricts
Towns

Ecclesiastical history

The Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi or Shasi / Shasien(sis) (Latin adjective) was established on 7 July 1936, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Yichang (now a diocese), bordering on that, on the dioceses Hanyang and Puqi and on the Apostolic prefecture of Lixian.

It is a (dormant?) pre-diocesan Latin jurisdiction, which is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See and it missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, not part of any ecclesiastical province. No statistics available.

It is indefinitely vacant, without Apostolic administrator, since the death of its sole incumbent as Apostolic Prefect of Shashi :

  • Father Julian Edward Dillon (狄隆), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born USA) (1936.07.11 – death 1961.06.25).

See also

References

  1. ^ "荆州市し第だい七次全国人口普查公报（第だい二に号ごう）——地区ちく人口じんこう情じょう况" (in Chinese). Government of Jingzhou. 2021-06-19.
  2. ^ 荆州 一个几乎被遗忘的"楚すわえ国こく故こ都と". todayonhistory.com (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. ^ 中華人民共和國ちゅうかじんみんきょうわこく行政ぎょうせい區劃くかく（1994年ねん）. big5.gov.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ^ 2022年ねん统计用よう区く划代码（沙すな市区しく） [2022 Statistical Division Codes (Shashi District)]. National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2022.

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