Hsia-men

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English

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Map including HSIA-MEN (AMOY) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

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From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 廈門厦門厦门 (Hsia⁴-mên²).[1][2]

Proper noun

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Hsia-men

  1. Alternative form of Xiamen
    • 1990, Richard Humble, The Travels of Marco Polo (Exploration Through the Ages)‎[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:
      They sailed from the great seaport of Cathay: Zaiton (modern Hsia-men), in a fleet of fourteen ships brought together on Kublai's orders. The ships Marco described were far bigger than anything built in Europe at that time.
    • 2003, Cheng-sheng Tu, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century[3], →OCLC, →OL, page 27:
      After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
    • 2005 December 27, “Folk crafts”, in Hakka Affairs Council[4], archived from the original on 28 March 2023:
      He went to Hsia-men with his fellow townsman Wu Chen-hsing in 1922, and engaged in brewery in the beginning before devoting himself to tung oil soaked paper umbrella manufacturing.
    • 2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty[5], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
      Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World.

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Xiamen, Wade-Giles romanization Hsia-men, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] Hsia-men (Xiamen) 厦門

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