Kunming

K'un-ming Kūnmíng English Alternative forms en K'un-ming Wade-Giles Etymology en :bor cmn:昆明 + 1 Pronunciation en /kʊnˈmɪŋ/ ko͝on′mĭng′Kunming or K’un-ming 991 3 Kunming or K’un-ming (ko͝on′mĭng′),Called Yunnan or Yunnanfu until 1913,K’un-ming or Kun·ming 394 2 K’un-ming or Kun·ming (ko͝on′mĭng′), en En-US-Kunming.wav US en ɪŋ 2 en Kun ming Proper noun en prefecture-level city/provincial capital p/Yunnan in southwestern c/China. en 1914 January China's Mining Districts The Far Eastern Review<t:zh 遠東時報> X 8 https://archive.org/details/far-eastern-review-1914.1/ Shanghai; Manila 830990665 311 https://archive.org/details/far-eastern-review-1914.1/page/311/ 2 The Minister of Commerce and Industry is pushing forward proposals for the development of mining, and has placed before the Cabinet a scheme for the division of the country into eight mining districts to be controlled by the Mining Supervision Bureau.The fifth division will be Shensi, Kansu, and SingkiangSinkiang, with headquarters at Changan; the sixth will be Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Fukien, with headquarters at Canton; the seventh will be Yunnan and Kweichow, with headquarters at Kunming, in Yunnan; and the eighth will be Szechuan alone, with headquarters at Chengtu. en December 31, 1930 December 30, 1930 Rebel Army Enters Yunnan. w:Hongkong Daily Press https://archive.org/details/NPDP19301231/ 2260 9 https://archive.org/details/NPDP19301231/page/n12/ 4 Military movements are reported to be proceeding in the region of Kunming. en 1943 Hubert Freyn Free China's New Deal https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/ New York w:Macmillan Company 635748038 63 https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/page/63/ Best known abroad are Free China’s two "back doors," the Burma Road and the Northwest Highway. The 960-mile road from Kunming to Lashio was a vast engineering feat and, after the outbreak of the Pacific war, China’s main hope for obtaining offensive armaments. In the last month before its closing it carried over 30,000 tons. en April 24, 1944 Trouble in Burma Life (magazine) Life https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_B1AEAAAAMBAJ/ 16 17 0024-3019 1297123825 25 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_B1AEAAAAMBAJ/page/n26/ 1 Last week's focus of the war in the Far East centered squarely upon this little railroad. Because it brings supplies to the Assam Valley airfields, whence they can be flown over the "Hump" to Kunming, it is a vital part of our only link with China. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-03-23_16_11/ March 23, 1975 Freedom at last for Wu & son Free China Weekly XVI 11 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-03-23_16_11/ Hsiao-hua, who studied at a primary school at Kunming before he fled the mainland with his father, said he was often criticized by his classmates for his association with "bad elements." All school children on the Chinese mainland, he added, must do forced manual work and read "Quotations from Mao Tse-tung." en https://archive.org/details/dinghaoamericasa00corn/ 1980 Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945 Wanda Cornelius; Thayne Short w:Pelican Publishing Company Gretna, Louisiana 0-88289-253-3 94-95 In some cases, over a hundred thousand men, women, and children could be seen building five-thousand-foot solid runways for huge bombers of a type not yet built in America. These fields were being built in places east of Kunming, places with strange-sounding names like Liuchow, Kweilin, Lingling, and Hengyang, names which would all too soon become quite familiar to hundred of American airmen. en January 23, 2022 Muyu Xu; David Stanway Biodiversity talks in China's Kunming in April may be affected by COVID Christian Schmollinger https://web.archive.org/web/20220124101152/https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/biodiversity-talks-chinas-kunming-april-may-be-affected-by-covid-2022-01-24/ 24 January 2022 w:Reuters Environment The schedule of the second phase of the COP15 global biodiversity talks in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming in April is "likely to be affected" by new COVID-19 risks, environment ministry spokesman Liu Youbin said on Monday.The second phase was supposed to see the completion of a new post-2020 global deal on biodiversity protection, following on the first round of talks in Kunming last October. en Derived terms en Kunming Lake Translations a prefecture-level city in southwestern China Arabic: ar كُونْمِينْج m kunming, ar كُونْمِينْج m kunming, ar كُونْمِينْغ m kunminḡ, ar كُونْمِينْغ m kunming Bulgarian: bg Кунми́н m Burmese: my ကူမင်းမြို့ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 昆明 kwan1 ming4 Hokkien: nan-hbl 昆明 Khun-bêng Mandarin: cmn 昆明 Kūnmíng Hebrew: he קונמינג Hindi: hi कुनमिंग f Hungarian: hu Kunming Japanese: ja 昆明 こんめい, Konmei Korean: ko ^쿤밍, ko 곤명(昆明) Gonmyeong Lao: lo ຄຸນໝິງ Lü: khb ᦵᦙᦲᧂᦶᦉ Macedonian: mk Кунминг m Mongolian: mn Күньмин Nuosu: ii ꈈꂱ Portuguese: pt Kunming f Russian: ru Куньми́н m Shan: shn Spanish: es Kunming m Thai: th คุนหมิง kunmĭng Ukrainian: uk Куньмі́н m Vietnamese: vi Côn Minh Zhuang: za Gunhmingz References Further reading Kunming in Encyclopædia Britannica Kunming, K'un-ming, K'unming, Kun-ming pn en 1998 Kunming Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1631 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1631/ 1 Formerly called Yunnanfu. Portuguese Etymology pt :bor cmn:昆明<tr:Kūnmíng> + 1 Proper noun f pt prefecture-level city/provincial capital p/Yunnan in southwestern c/China Kunming Spanish es: Proper noun es prefecture-level city/provincial capital p/Yunnan in southwestern c/China Kunming