Chin-men

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金門 (Chin¹-mên²).[1]

Chin-men

1. Alternative form of Kinmen
   • 1989, Wing-tsit Chan, “Chu Hsi and Chin-men (Quemoy)”, in Chu Hsi New Studies‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, LCCN 89-4799, OCLC 246807084, page 561:

     Chʻiu was a native of Hsiao-teng Township, Chin-men, and was also a fourth-generation pupil of Chu Hsi.⁸ The list of outstanding men of Chin-men in section 4 of chapter 9 includes only Chʻiu Kʻuei, thus indicating that the other Tʻung-an natives were not from Chin-men.

   • 1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, Graham P. Chapman, Kathleen M. Baker, editors, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia)‎, Routledge, →ISBN, OCLC 1010539844, OL 1563276M, page 160:

     Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.

   • 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, Paul Cooper, transl., Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century‎, OCLC 474225446, page 53:

     He was succeeded by his eldest son, Cheng Ching (鄭經), who pulled out of Amoy and Chin-men (金門) not long after taking the reigns from his father.

• inchmen, minchen