Mao-ming
See also: Maoming and Màomíng
English
Map including MAO-MING (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), Wade-Giles romanization: Mao⁴-ming².
Proper noun
Mao-ming
- Alternative form of Maoming
- 1925, “Mr. Yang Yung-tai 楊永泰字暢卿”, in M. C. Powell, editor, Who's Who in China 中國名人錄, 3rd edition, Shanghai: China Weekly Review, page 914:
- Mr. Yang Yung-t'ai was born at Mao-ming Hsien, Kuangtung province, in 1880.
- 1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968, Harvard University Press, page 238:
- Deposits of oil were being opened near Mao-ming in western Kwangtung, and a railroad was built linking Mao-ming first to Canton¹²⁰ and later to Chan-chiang.
- 1977, CIA, China Oil Production Prospects, page 31:
- The crude is transshipped from Chan-chiang by rail to the refinery at Mao-ming. A rumored pipeline under construction from Chan-chiang to Mao-ming has not been confirmed.
- 1978, William L. Parish, Martin King Whyte, Village and Family in Contemporary China, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 20:
- The only other major railroad in Kwangtung (completed in the 1950s) links the far western port of Chan-chiang and the shale-oil-producing city of Mao-ming to Kwangsi Province.
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Translations
Maoming — see Maoming
Anagrams
- ammoing