Kinmen
English
金門航空站 Kinmen Airport
Alternative forms
- (from pinyin) Jinmen
- (from Wade–Giles) Chinmen, Chin-men
Etymology
From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金門／金门 (Jīnmén), parallel with names for the four townships of Kinmen Island: Kincheng, Kinhu, Kinning, and Kinsha.
Proper noun
Kinmen
- A county of Taiwan.
- 2007 February 14, Jennings, Ralph, “Chinese tourists flock to Taiwan's Kinmen island”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 July 2016:
- Kinmen County, an island chain with a population of 76,000, is catering to Chinese tourists by converting military facilities into tourist traps and building museums with wartime themes.
- 2015, Alan Taylor, “Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, Only a Few Miles From Mainland China”, in The Atlantic:
- Shiyu, or Lion Islet, part of Kinmen County, one of Taiwan’s offshore islands, seen in front of Xiamen, China, on September 8, 2015.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kinmen.
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- An island in Kinmen, Taiwan.
- 1950 July 7, Dean Acheson, “The Secretary of State to the Embassy in China”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1950, volume 6, United States Government Printing Office, published 1976, OCLC 1053588555, page 371:
- 5. Chi Govt wishes to call attn of US Govt again to fact that Chi Govt is at present maintaining positions on a nr of islands such as Lintin and Lema Islands off Canton, Kinmen Island off Amoy, Matsu Island off Foochow, Tachen Islands off Chekiang Province, etc. These island positions, together with those on the Pescadores, form part of the defense of Taiwan. They are guarded by considerable nr of ground troops with the support of air and naval forces. They have been, however, under constant attacks by Chi Commies, and Chi milit command feels obliged to resist these attacks in self-defense. Chi Govt will appreciate it if US Govt wld indicate its views regarding the matter.
- 1966, 中華醫學雜誌, volume 13, ISSN 0578-1337, OCLC 3522941, page 158:
- The whole Kinmen island complex was divided into 7 operation areas, namely, Tatan, Erhtan, Small Kinmen, and Kinchen-Kinshan, Kinning, Kinhu and Kinsa on Kinmen.
- 1995 December 9, “An old-fashioned election”, in The Economist, volume 337, number 7944, pages 34-39:
- KINMEN
THE little island of Kinmen, three miles off the Chinese coast, must be the world's most heavily defended.
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This week it was learnt that in March China's military leaders plan "Operation Kinmen", a simulated invasion of the island, on the eve of Taiwan's first election for the presidency in which all adult Taiwanese will be able to vote. On Kinmen itself, the Taiwanese are declining to panic.
- KINMEN
- 2012, Mark Henshaw, Red Cell, →ISBN, LCCN 2011040716, OCLC 798915921, OL 25067110M, page 110:
- The PLA had landed several battalions on the beaches and suffered immediate counterattacks by the Nationalist “Kinmen Bears” riding in American M5 A1 tanks for which the Communists had no counter. Fifteen thousand men had died in less than three days. The victory left Kinmen itself a hallowed ground in the minds of the Taiwanese.
- 2020, Gerry Shih, “On China’s front line, emerging Cold War haunts battle-worn Taiwanese islands”, in Washington Post:
- Arguments over Kinmen's relationship with China swing between "accusing someone of either jeopardizing the most crucial geopolitical relationship of all or committing treason," said Michael Szonyi, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the author of "Cold War Island," a book about Kinmen.
"Virtually every local issue on Kinmen, no matter how small, gets linked to the larger geopolitical context of how to relate to a rising and changing China," Szonyi said. "These are exactly the same questions that Taiwan, that Africa and Latin America, that even the United States are increasingly grappling with."
- Arguments over Kinmen's relationship with China swing between "accusing someone of either jeopardizing the most crucial geopolitical relationship of all or committing treason," said Michael Szonyi, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the author of "Cold War Island," a book about Kinmen.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kinmen.
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Synonyms
- (from Zhangzhou Hokkien) Quemoy
Derived terms
- Kinmenese
Translations
county of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Further reading
- “Kinmen”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Kinmen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Kinmen” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
French
Proper noun
Kinmen ?
- Kinmen (a county of Taiwan)