Dadan

dadán dädan dàdǎn English + Island Dadan Island Alternative forms en Tatan Wade-Giles en Taitan Etymology From en cmn ^大膽//. Pronunciation en /dɑˈdɑn/ /dæˈdæn/ dä′dän′ Proper noun en island rural township/Lieyu county/Kinmen c/Taiwan. en 2005 w:Xiangming Chen The Greater Southeast China Subregion As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim https://archive.org/details/asbordersbendtra0000chen_o8k1/ w:Rowman & Littlefield 0-7425-0093-4 2004018261 1166912206 7923929M 91–92 https://archive.org/details/asbordersbendtra0000chen_o8k1/page/91/ Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993). en June 3, 2013 Sarah Mishkin Taiwan’s small islands turn to tourism to stay afloat https://archive.is/eWR1N 28 April 2022 https://www.ft.com/content/e03b6dc8-c2ca-11e2-bbbd-00144feab7de w:Financial Times 0307-1766 60638918 Asia-Pacific https://archive.ph/eWR1N Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan. en 02/16/2019 Tours to Dadan Island prove a big hit with Taiwanese https://web.archive.org/web/20220620104614/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/201902160014 20 June 2022 w:Focus Taiwan Society https://archive.ph/TZRH4 Visits to Dadan, a Taiwan-held island off the coast of China and a major battleground during the Cold War, proved an instant hit following the start of tour bookings earlier this week. Translations island Chinese: Cantonese: yue 大膽 Mandarin: cmn 大膽 Dàdǎn Further reading Dadan, Tatan Indonesian Etymology id su Dadan. Pronunciation Proper noun id male Sundanese Lun Bawang Proper noun lnd proper noun lnd male References ⁠62