Meaning of Jinmen | Babel Free

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“Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsun^([sic – meaning Tachiu-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.”

“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).”

“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.”

“For instance, someone had the strange idea of decorating Mofan Street in Jinmen County’s Jincheng Township (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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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