Men-t'ou-kou

English Etymology From en cmn 門頭溝 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Mên²-tʻou²-kou¹.en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 358 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/358/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesMentowkow (Men-t’ou-kou, Mentougou) Proper noun 1 1 en Mentougou. en 1967 Yuan-li Wu Efficiency in the Use of Transport Input The Spatial Economy of Communist China https://archive.org/details/spatialeconomyof0000wuyu/ w:Frederick A. Praeger Publishers 67-20739 860169638 192 https://archive.org/details/spatialeconomyof0000wuyu/page/192/ Again, coal was shipped eastward from Kuan-yin-t'ang in Honan while the same kind of coal was being shipped westward from the Feng-feng and Chiao-tso mines — a typical instance of cross-hauling. Another example is the shipment of coal for household consumption from Yang-ch'uan in Shansi to Peking where local coal from Men-t'ou-kou was available, even though there may have been some quality difference. en 1968 PEKING (PEIPING) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 17 68-10064 1036882 533 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/page/n586/ 1 Beyond Shih-ching-shan, at the end of a rail spur, 20 mi. west of the city centre, are the coal mines of Men-t'ou-kou. en 1996 w:Jacques Gernet The Beginnings of Modern China and the Crisis at the End of the Ming Dynasty A History of Chinese Civilization https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern_0/ 2nd J. R. Foster; Charles Hartman w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-49781-7 423820511 1274516M 432 https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern_0/page/432/ In 1603 the miners of the private mines of Men-t'ou-kou, thirty kilometres east of Peking, made a protest march to the capital. en References