Shashi

Shashi is a district within the important urban region of Jingzhou, Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It is positioned on the left financial institution of the Yangtze River, among Yichang and Wuhan. Shashi changed into based throughout the warring states duration as an extension of the Chu capital Ying, its port at the Yangtze. The cutting-edge history it is super as one of the four ports distinctive to be opened to the Empire of Japan inside the Treaty of Shimonoseki 17 April 1895, which additionally ended Chinese imperial claims to Korea.

The treaty port grew swiftly into because of this, gaining the moniker of "Little Hankow". Nonetheless, the hole of other coastal ports caused trade shifting elsewhere and it step by step declined. In 1994 it misplaced its repute as a town and changed into mixed with Jingzhou to shape Jingsha metropolis. The Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi Shasien become mounted on 7 July 1936, on territory cut up off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Yichang, bordering on that, at the dioceses Hanyang and Puqi and at the Apostolic prefecture of Lixian.