Chiang-men

English Etymology From en cmn 江門 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chiang¹-mên².Jiangmen, Wade Giles romanization Chiang-men, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Jiangmen. en 1957 w:G. William Skinner Open Doors and Open Spaces: Chinese Migration and Population Growth to 1917 Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History https://archive.org/details/chinesesocietyin0000gwil/ Ithaca, NY w:Cornell University Press 236625 41–42 https://archive.org/details/chinesesocietyin0000gwil/page/41/ Around 1825, however, prior to the main shift, the major ports in Kwangtung and Fukien from which trade was carried on with Siam (see Maps 2, 3, 4) were (1) Canton and Chiang-men in the Cantonese emigrant area, en 1975 Edward J. M. Rhoads China's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895–1913 https://archive.org/details/chinasrepublican0000rhoa/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 0-674-11980-0 74-84090 1302453 10 https://archive.org/details/chinasrepublican0000rhoa/page/10/ Other large cities in the delta are Kongmoon (Chiang-men), in Hsin-hui district, with a population in 1953 of 85,000, and Shih-ch’i, seat of Hsiang-shan (now Chung-shan) district, with a population of 93,000. en 1977 Sarasin Viraphol The Height of the Sino-Siamese Junk Trade in the Second and Third Bangkok Reigns, 1809–1833 Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese trade, 1652–1853 https://archive.org/details/tributeprofitsin0000sara/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-80915-7 77-9447 3016868 188 https://archive.org/details/tributeprofitsin0000sara/page/188/ Among the vessels, five junks of 3,000 piculs (400,000-567,000 lbs.) came from Chiang-men (Kiangmui) in Kwangtung, one of 5,000 piculs from Chang-lin, and two of 3,000 piculs each from Amoy. References