:''See Shashi for namesakes'' Shashi () is a

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within the main urban area of

Jingzhou Jingzhou ( zh, s=, c=荆州, t=, p=Jīngzhōu) is a prefecture-level city in southern Hubei province, China, located on the banks of the Yangtze River. Its total residential population was 5,231,180 based on the Seventh National Population Censu ...

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province, China. It is located on the left (northern) bank of the

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, between

Yichang Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...

and

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History

Shashi was founded during the

Warring States period The Warring States period in history of China, Chinese history (221 BC) comprises the final two and a half centuries of the Zhou dynasty (256 BC), which were characterized by frequent warfare, bureaucratic and military reforms, and ...

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 The , also known as the Treaty of Maguan () in China or the in Japan, was signed at the hotel in Shimonoseki, Japan, on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing China. It was a treaty that ended the First Sino-Japanese War, ...

(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". 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.

Administrative divisions

Shashi District administers 6 subdistricts and 4 towns: ;Subdistricts: * Zhongshan Subdistrict (/) * Chongwen Subdistrict (/) * Jiefang Subdistrict (/) * Shengli Subdistrict (/) * Chaoyang Subdistrict (/) (formerly: Lianhe Subdistrict ()) * Lixin Subdistrict () ;Towns: * Luochang () * Cenhe () * Guanyindang () * Guanju ()

Ecclesiastical history

The Roman Catholic

Apostolic Prefecture An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it ...

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

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, not part of any

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. No statistics available. It is indefinitely vacant, without

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, since the death of its sole incumbent as ''Apostolic Prefect of Shashi'' : * Father Julian Edward Dillon (),

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(O.F.M.) (born USA) (1936.07.11 – death 1961.06.25).

References

Sources and external links

Official website of Shashi District government

County-level divisions of Hubei Jingzhou {{Hubei-geo-stub

History

Administrative divisions

Ecclesiastical history

See also

References

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