Kinmen

English thumb|zh :zh:金門機場 金門航空站 Kinmen Airport Kinmen Airport Alternative forms en Jinmen Pinyin en Chinmen Chin-men Wade-Giles Etymology From the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect (later en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 32 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/32/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Kinmen (island) zh 金門島 Fukien zh 福建 24.26N 118.20E) romanization of en cmn - *金門 Jīnmén, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ],Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 parallel with names for the four townships of Kinmen Island: Kincheng, Kinhu, Kinning, and Kinsha. Pronunciation en /ˈkɪn(ˌ)mɛn/ /ˈkɪn(ˌ)mən/ jĭn′mŭn′Quemoy 1542 2 Quemoy (kĭmoi′), Mandarin Kinmen or Chin-men (both: jĭn′mŭn′), en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kinmen.wav Southern England en Kin men Proper noun en county c/Taiwan. en 1959 February Chronology w:Free China Review IX 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_taiwan-review_1959-02_9_2/ Taipei Henry Kung 0016-030X 1378099 54 https://archive.org/details/sim_taiwan-review_1959-02_9_2/page/n53/ 2 The Kinmen County Government reported that during the past four months of Red bombardment of Kinmen, a total of 105 civilians were killed and 312 wounded. en FEBRUARY 14, 2007 Ralph Jennings Chinese tourists flock to Taiwan's Kinmen island https://web.archive.org/web/20160710042850/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-kinmen-idUSTP19850120070215 10 July 2016 w:Reuters 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. en https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/10/taiwans-kinmen-islands-only-a-few-miles-from-mainland-china/409720/ 2015 Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, Only a Few Miles From Mainland China Alan Taylor w:The Atlantic Shi Islet Shiyu, or Lion Islet, part of Kinmen County, one of Taiwan’s offshore islands, seen in front of Xiamen, China, on September 8, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305173204/https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/10/taiwans-kinmen-islands-only-a-few-miles-from-mainland-china/409720/ 5 March 2026 en en island county/Kinmen c/Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/allhands6006unit/ July 7, 1950 The Secretary of State to the Embassy in China w:Dean Acheson Foreign Relations of the United States 1950 1976 1053588555 6 w:United States Government Printing Office 371 https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0006unit_p8y2/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. en 1966 中華醫學雜誌 https://books.google.com/books?id=LTjsAAAAIAAJ 13 0578-1337 3522941 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. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1980-04-27_21_16/ December 9, 1995 An old-fashioned election w:The Economist 337 7944 34–39 https://archive.org/details/sim_economist_1996-12-09_337_7944/page/n35/ KINMENTHE little island of Kinmen, three miles off the Chinese coast, must be the world's most heavily defended.. . .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. en 2012 Mark Henshaw Red Cell https://archive.org/details/redcell0000hens/ 978-1-4516-6193-4 2011040716 798915921 25067110M 110 https://archive.org/details/redcell0000hens/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. en https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-taiwan-us-military-cold-war-kinmen/2020/09/09/c2a5caa6-e6bc-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html 2020 On China’s front line, emerging Cold War haunts battle-worn Taiwanese islands Gerry Shih w: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." https://web.archive.org/web/20240620205318/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-taiwan-us-military-cold-war-kinmen/2020/09/09/c2a5caa6-e6bc-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html 20 June 2024 en August 5, 2022 Amy Chang Chien; John Liu; Paul Mozur As Missiles Fall, Generations Split on Taiwan’s Relationship With China w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220805100112/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/world/asia/taiwan-response-china.html 05 August 2022 0362-4331 1645522 China-Taiwan Tensions The San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island may well be the best place in Taiwan to watch for the threat of invasion by China.A handful of people on the Taiwanese islands near China did catch a glimpse of the drills. On Kinmen, Chiu Yi-hsuan, a 39-year-old owner of an independent bookstore, said she felt a shock wave on Thursday. “At first I thought it was thunder, then I realized it wasn’t,” she said. en Synonyms from Zhangzhou Hokkien en Quemoy Derived terms en Kinmenese Translations county of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chinese: Cantonese: yue 金門 gam1 mun4 Hokkien: nan-hbl 金門 Kim-mn̂g, Kim-mûi Mandarin: cmn 金門 Jīnmén Japanese: ja 金門 きんもん, Kinmon Korean: ko 진먼 Russian: ru Цзиньмэнь Vietnamese: vi Kim Môn References Further reading Kinmen, Quemoy, Jinmen, Chinmen, Chin-men French fr: Pronunciation [i:i_,e:e_] Proper noun fr county c/Taiwan Kinmen