Shashi (Chinese: 沙市; pinyin: Shāshì) is a district within the main urban area of Jingzhou, Hubei province, China.

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).

[2] Nonetheless, the opening of other coastal ports led to trade moving elsewhere and it gradually declined.

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