Mengtsz

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn 蒙自. Proper noun en dated en Mengzi (a county-level city in Yunnan, China). en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.164120/mode 1908 The Trade And Administration Of The Chinese Empire Hosea Ballou Morse Longmans, Green, and Co. 4399699 259 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.164120/page/n279/mode/ 1889, the opening of Mengtsz and relaxation of fiscal restrictions in Tonkin restored the Red River to its natural use as a trade route to Yunnan. en 1934 George Cressey George Babock Cressey China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/ McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 186614458 379 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/page/379/ Two lines of travel lead south and east from Yunnanfu. One is the route of the railway through Mengtsz to French Indo-China, with a caravan trail which branches off to Szemao in the southwest. The other road is the big east highway to Kwangtung. This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of navigation on the Si Kiang in western KiangsiKwangsi, 355 miles distant, and requires twenty days of travel. From Poseh boats go down stream to Canton. en 1961 Chün-tu Hsüeh Huang Hsing and the Chinese Revolution https://archive.org/details/huanghsingchines0000unse/ Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 1968 1242924084 70–71 https://archive.org/details/huanghsingchines0000unse/page/70/ Upon arriving in Hokow, Huang Hsing found that the revolutionary forces there lacked fighting spirit. His strategy was to attack Mengtsz, the gateway to Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, but he found the soldiers very reluctant to move.