Mao-ming

See also: Maoming and Màomíng

English

Map including MAO-MING (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), Wade-Giles romanization: Mao⁴-ming².

Proper noun

Mao-ming

1. Alternative form of Maoming
   • 1925, “Mr. Yang Yung-tai 楊永泰字暢卿”, in M. C. Powell, editor, Who's Who in China 中國名人錄‎^[1], 3rd edition, Shanghai: China Weekly Review, page 914:

     Mr. Yang Yung-t'ai was born at Mao-ming Hsien, Kuangtung province, in 1880.

   • 1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968‎^[2], Harvard University Press, page 238:

     Deposits of oil were being opened near Mao-ming in western Kwangtung, and a railroad was built linking Mao-ming first to Canton¹²⁰ and later to Chan-chiang.

   • 1977, CIA, China Oil Production Prospects‎^[3], page 31:

     The crude is transshipped from Chan-chiang by rail to the refinery at Mao-ming. A rumored pipeline under construction from Chan-chiang to Mao-ming has not been confirmed.

   • 1978, William L. Parish, Martin King Whyte, Village and Family in Contemporary China‎^[4], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     The only other major railroad in Kwangtung (completed in the 1950s) links the far western port of Chan-chiang and the shale-oil-producing city of Mao-ming to Kwangsi Province.

Translations

Maoming — see Maoming

Anagrams

• ammoing