Hsia-men

Hsiamen English thumb|Map including HSIA-MEN (AMOY) (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 廈門//厦門//厦门 Hsia⁴-mên².Xiamen, Wade-Giles romanization Hsia-men, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 479 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/479/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Hsia-men (Xiamen) zh 厦門 Proper noun 1 1 en Xiamen. en 1990 Richard Humble The Travels of Marco Polo Exploration Through the Ages https://archive.org/details/travelsofmarcopo0000humb/ 0-531-14022-9 20131761 2213335M 25 https://archive.org/details/travelsofmarcopo0000humb/page/25/ They sailed from the great seaport of Cathay: Zaiton (modern Hsia-men), in a fleet of fourteen ships brought together on Kublai's orders. The ships Marco described were far bigger than anything built in Europe at that time. en 2003 Cheng-sheng Tu Paul Cooper Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century https://archive.org/details/ilhaformosaemerg00duzh/ 909219478 24210446M 27 https://archive.org/details/ilhaformosaemerg00duzh/page/27/ After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (zh 許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (zh 廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor. en 2005-12-27 Folk crafts https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172401/https://www.hakka.gov.tw/Content/Content?NodeID=237&PageID=29781 28 March 2023 https://www.hakka.gov.tw/Content/Content?NodeID=237&PageID=29781 w:Hakka Affairs Council He went to Hsia-men with his fellow townsman Wu Chen-hsing in 1922, and engaged in brewery in the beginning before devoting himself to tung oil soaked paper umbrella manufacturing. en 2007 w:Ronald Findlay; w:Kevin O'Rourke Power and Plenty https://archive.org/details/powerplentytrade00rona/ w:Princeton University Press 978-0-691-11854-3 2007931677 1204059663 173 https://archive.org/details/powerplentytrade00rona/page/175/ Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World. Translations Xiamen References Further reading pn en 1998 Xiamen Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 3500-3501 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3501/ 3 sometimes spelled Hsia-men. Anagrams en aehimns Animesh Heimans Meishan Shimane haemins meanish