Citations:Chinmen

English citations of Chinmen

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• 1950 January 16, “Formosa: Climax of the China Tragedy”, in Newsweek‎^[1], volume XXXV, number 3, page 30:

  The best educated American guess is that Chiang has 100,000 effective combat soldiers. Generally these troops could hold Formosa and even Hainan. Telling of his visit to Chinmen Island off Amoy only two weeks after the Communists landed 10,000 troops there, he said: "Although the Communists landed behind as well as in front of the Nationalists, the defenders fought back and with reinforcements, destroyed the Communist invaders. They killed 3,000 and captured 6,000-plus enough equipment to arm in full all the Nationalist troops on Chinmen, only 60 per cent of whom had firearms, and two divisions on Formosa as well."

• 1951, Robert B. Rigg, Red China's Fighting Hordes‎^[2], Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 314:

  As an example of how costly island real estate was to the Red Chinese, consider Chinmen Island in October 1949. There, according to Irving Short, an American observer of the battle, the Communists lost 7,000 men as prisoners to the Nationalists, and in addition some 13,000 were drowned or killed.

• 1953 March, “Murder in Mid-air”, in Foreign Service Journal‎^[3], volume 30, number 3, pages 32–33:

  Interceptor Nationalist fighter planes shepherded the plane to a safe landing on Nationalist held Chinmen Island of the mainland.
  . . .
  Miss Ireton emphasized that the Chinese soldiers on Chinmen had treated them with utmost friendliness and consideration when they found the passengers were Americans and Filipinos.
  After a twenty-four stay on Chinmen, the passengers were flown in a Chinese Nationalist army plane to Taipei.

• 1999, Ernest Boehr, “A Work of God Among the Hakka of Taiwan”, in Perspectives on the world Christian movement‎^[4], →ISBN, page 673:

  She had been troubled with demons for some years and they really began to bother her when her son wrote from the off-shore island of Chinmen of his fear from the noise of exploding shells from Communist China.

• 2004, Xiaolu Guo, translated by Cindy Carter, Village of Stone‎^[5], London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 100:

  It was as if she could see all the way across the Taiwan Straits to Chinmen harbour on the opposite shore, where the mainland fishing boats sometimes took shelter from the typhoons.

• 2009, David Gero, Flights of Terror: Aerial Hijack and Sabotage Since 1930‎^[6], 2nd edition, Haynes Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185:

  9 FEBRUARY 1999
  [...]As the aircraft was landing at the airport serving Chinmen, Fujian, one of the four men stabbed a Taiwanese official with a sharpened piece of metal, although the first victim was not seriously injured.

• 2014, Ziro Komiya, Alain Drumont, “Supplement to the Genus Megobaralipton (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae)”, in Elytra New series‎^[7], volume 4, number 2, Tokyo, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 195–196:

  In 2013, we knew that two types, one from Taiwan and the other from Amoi, had been found in NMHN and we could use them for this study. Thus, suddenly we could see syntypes of three localities indicated by FAIRMAIRE (1900). Additionally, Dr. CHOU (2004) rediscovered this species at Chinmen Is. of Fujian Province and we examined a pair from him.[...]Additionally, the examples of Chinmen Is. illustrated by W. CHOU (2004) included both sexes of which the male showed conspicuous difference from male syntypes whilst the female indicated same characteristics as that of Xiamen. This time we could examine a pair example from Chinmen Is. got by W. CHOU in 2005 and confirmed the above-mentioned facts. Thus we concluded that the specimens from Xiamen and Chinmen Is. should be regarded as a different taxon from that of Taiwan and Fuzhou, and we name this taxon as choui subsp. nov. and give the description below.