Chin-men
See also: Chinmen
English
Map including Kinmen (labeled as 金門 CHIN-MEN (QUEMOY)) and surrounding area (AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金門 (Chin¹-mên²).[1]
Proper noun
Chin-men
- Alternative form of Kinmen
- 1989, Wing-tsit Chan, “Chu Hsi and Chin-men (Quemoy)”, in Chu Hsi New Studies, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, LCCN 89-4799, OCLC 246807084, page 561:
- Chʻiu was a native of Hsiao-teng Township, Chin-men, and was also a fourth-generation pupil of Chu Hsi.⁸ The list of outstanding men of Chin-men in section 4 of chapter 9 includes only Chʻiu Kʻuei, thus indicating that the other Tʻung-an natives were not from Chin-men.
- 1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, Graham P. Chapman, Kathleen M. Baker, editors, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia), Routledge, →ISBN, OCLC 1010539844, OL 1563276M, page 160:
- Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.
- 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, Paul Cooper, transl., Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century, OCLC 474225446, page 53:
- He was succeeded by his eldest son, Cheng Ching (鄭經), who pulled out of Amoy and Chin-men (金門) not long after taking the reigns from his father.
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Translations
Kinmen — see Kinmen
References
- Quemoy Island, island, Taiwan, Chinese (Wade-Giles) Chin-men Tao, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Anagrams
- inchmen, minchen