K'un-ming

Kunming Kūnmíng English thumb|Map including K'UN-MING (YÜNNANFU) (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From en cmn 昆明, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Kʻun¹-ming².Kunming, Wade-Giles K’un-ming, in Encyclopædia Britannica Pronunciation ko͝onʹmǐngʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Kunming. en 1954 Herold J. Wiens The South China geographical environment Han Chinese Expansion in South China https://archive.org/details/hanchineseexpans0000wien/ Shoe String Press 1967 67-16409 473651484 24127509M 8 https://archive.org/details/hanchineseexpans0000wien/page/8/ Settlements at a few favored basins, and strategic outposts were established very early, such as those at Kuei-yang and K'un-ming, but the vast extent of the territory remained under the local autonomous rule of tribal chieftains with nominal subservience to the Chinese Emperor. en 1968 Edward W. Wagner K’UN-MING w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita13chic/ 13 68-10064 1036882 511 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita13chic/page/n532/ 1 During World War II K’un-ming received many refugees from eastern China and later from southeast Asia, and became a Chinese military base. It was also of great importance as the transport terminus for the Burma road and for cargo flown over the "Hump" by U.S. air forces. en https://archive.org/details/understandingmod0000unse/ 1969 Understanding Modern China Norton Ginsburg w:Joseph Kitagawa w:Quadrangle Books 70-78310 869241213 59 https://archive.org/details/understandingmod0000unse/page/59/ Ninety-five per cent of the cultivated area of the country lies east of a line drawn from Tsitsihar (Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh) in northern Manchuria to K'un-ming in Yün-nan Province. This is eastern China, and within it is the Chinese ecumene. en 2006 w:Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of the 20th Century https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryof2000blai/ w:Ivan R. Dee 978-1-56663-687-2 2006002494 63171221 254 https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryof2000blai/page/254/ Julia Child helped one of the world's richer and more puritanical nations to view its menu afresh. A Californian, she worked for U.S. intelligence in wartime K'un-ming, where the American food she ate was "terrible" and the regional Chinese food was a revelation. Derived terms en K'un-ming Lake Translations Kunming References Further reading K'un-ming