Jinmen

English Etymology en cmn 金門 Jīnmén. Pronunciation jǐnʹmǔnʹen 1952 Quemoy Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1542 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1542/ 2 Quemoy (kǐmoiʹ), Mandarin Kinmen or Chin-men (both: jǐnʹmǔnʹ)) en /ˈd͡ʒɪn(ˌ)mɛn/ /t͡ʃin-/ /-mən/ Proper noun en Kinmen (county) en 21 March 1996 18 March 1996 Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) He There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands Daily Report: China https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036099052&seq=577 96-056 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 0892-015X 7522935 75 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036099052&seq=657 2 Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsunTachiu-tsun] and Xiaoqiucun [Hsiaochiu-tsun] with each covering approximately one square km. Formerly a township under Fujian's Putian County, its main dialect is similar to the one spoken in the Putian and Xianyou area. It was placed under the administration of Jinmen County after the Kuomintang Government retreated from the mainland. en 2002 Sara L. Friedman Civilizing the Masses: The Productive Power of Cultural Reform Efforts in Late Republican-Era Fujian Terry Bodenhorn Defining Modernity: Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970 https://archive.org/details/definingmodernit0000unse/ Ann Arbor, Michigan Center for Chinese Studies 0-89264-161-4 2002067722 49775408 159 https://archive.org/details/definingmodernit0000unse/page/159/ Chen Yi moved the provincial government inland from the capital Fuzhou to Yongan County in 1938, the same year that the city of Xiamen and Jinmen County fell under Japanese control (see map). en January 23, 2004 Mainland City Greets Taiwan County with Fireworks https://web.archive.org/web/20040426211532/http://www.china.org.cn/english/taiwan/85428.htm 26 April 2004 w:China Internet Information Center https://archive.is/BCVTO Xiamen City in east China greeted Jinmen County of Taiwan Province with a display of fireworks Thursday night, the first day of the traditional Chinese lunar New Year or Spring Festival.Xiamen and Jinmen face each other across the sea. The two started festive greetings by letting off fireworks in 1987, but Jinmen has stopped the tradition due to a lack of funds. en January 19, 2018 Meng-hsiang Chu Flying ‘red’ flags is not ‘expression’ https://web.archive.org/web/20180118195120/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/01/19/2003686024 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Editorials 8 For instance, someone had the strange idea of decorating Mofan Street in Jinmen County’s Jincheng Township (zh 金城) by hanging Republic of China “white sun” flags on one side of the street and People’s Republic of China “five star” flags on the other. en November 19, 2019 Jinmen county (to be unified) https://web.archive.org/web/20230305151605/http://www.enquanzhou.com/2019-11/19/c_425632.htm 05 March 2023 Information Office of Quanzhou Municipal People's Government https://archive.is/r8gs2 The total area of Jinmen county is 153.06 square kilometers. The county has a registered population of 130,461 people and a cultivated area of 6,487 hectares. en Kinmen (island) en March 10, 1998 June 14, 1997 Stuart Chandler Establishing Friendly Relations: The Fokuangshan Perspective on the Hsi Lai Temple Political Donations Controversy Investigation of Illegal or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaign: Final Report of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, together with Additional and Minority Views w:Government Printing Office 2 of 6 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754067930226&seq=1 w:Harvard University 38876597 1937 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754067930226&seq=197 The same year as receiving this post, Master Hsing Yün cmn ^星^雲 was also invited to propagate the Dharma and confer the Three Refuges among soldiers stationed on Jinmen and Ma-Tzu islands, a task he has continued to perform periodically at various army bases and military academies. en 2001 He An Andante Patricia Sieber Patricia Sieber Red is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories https://archive.org/details/redisnotonlycolo0000unse/ w:Rowman & Littlefield 0-7425-1137-5 2001020458 46314826 178 https://archive.org/details/redisnotonlycolo0000unse/page/178/ In their senior year, Zhang Zewei had been sent back from the military outpost on Jinmen and reassigned to serve in Zuoying, a more comfortable posting in a small town in the south. en June 3, 2013 Sarah Mishkin Taiwan’s small islands turn to tourism to stay afloat https://archive.is/eWR1N 28 April 2022 https://www.ft.com/content/e03b6dc8-c2ca-11e2-bbbd-00144feab7de w:Financial Times 0307-1766 60638918 Asia-Pacific Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan.The transformation of Matsu and Jinmen’s defences has involved turning kilometres of bomb shelters built in the 1960s into historic sites that tourists can ride gondolas through. en 2023 Alexander V. Pantsov Under Washington's Wing Steven I. Levine Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 https://archive.org/details/victorious-in-defeat-the-life-and-times-of-chiang-kai-shek/ w:Yale University Press 978-0-300-26020-5 2022934236 1341203428 462 https://archive.org/details/victorious-in-defeat-the-life-and-times-of-chiang-kai-shek/page/462/ In August 1958 a serious crisis erupted again in the Taiwan Strait. This time the Chinese communists subjected the island of Jinmen (Quemoy) and the Mazu (Matsu) archipelago in the Taiwan Strait to a powerful bombardment. At the time one-third of Chiang Kai-shek’s ground forces were stationed there. Translations Kinmen References Further reading en 1998 Jinmen 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 1451 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1451/ 1