Dadeng
See also: dàdēng
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大嶝 (Dàdèng).
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Dadeng
- A subdistrict of Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a town
- 2012, Beijing Review[2], volume 55, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:
- Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.
- 2019 October 31, “Xiang'an District”, in Invest Xiamen [投资厦门 厦门市招商办][3], archived from the original on 25 March 2023[4]:
- Xiang'an Administrative District has a coverage area of 412sqkm, a sea area of 134 sqkm and a shoreline of 75km. It has 180sqkm lands that can be used for urban construction and a forest coverage ratio of 31.75%. It has four towns (Xindian, Maxiang, Neicuo and Xinxu), one subdistrict (Dadeng Subdistrict) and one farm (Damaoshan Farm) within its jurisdiction.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dadeng.
- An island in Dadeng, Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China
- 2003, William N. Brown, 美丽厦门 [Amoy Magic][6], Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186:
- Dadeng Island (大嶝岛) In 1988, I was so entranced by my Chinese-English dictionary's 'model English sentences' that I read it cover to cover twice! (Read some of them on page 218). For example, how would you use the word "suppose?" The dictionary suggested, "I suppose she's gone to practice grenade throwing again."
What a hot date she'd make! But after visiting Dadeng Island's Cross-Straits Conflict Museum, I understood what got China's lassies hot under the collar.
- 2011, Journal of Chinese Overseas[7], volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 172:
- Everywhere on the mainland the defeated KMT was forced to retreat except in the Guningtou battle (Quemoy battle) of 1949 when the KMT won a rare victory in a key battle which prevented the Communists from "liberating" Taiwan by force. In the same year, after taking over Xiamen and Dadeng Island, the Communist Party attempted to take over Quemoy and attack Taiwan/Penghu.
- 2012, Beijing Review[8], volume 55, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:
- Dadeng Island, home to the newly built Dadeng Town market, has offered duty-free Taiwanese products since 1999.
- 2012 August 21, Esme Chiang, C.J. Lin, “Chunghwa Telecom completes 1st cross-strait cable system”, in Focus Taiwan[9], archived from the original on 25 March 2023, Business[10]:
- The Kinmen-Xiamen submarine cable project was launched in 1996, after top ranking officials from Taiwan and China telecommunication companies held a meeting in Taiwan, Lu said. The system has two cables, an 11-kilometer one that runs directly between Kinmen's Lake Tzu and Xiamen's Guanyin Mountain, and a 9.7 km cable between Kinmen's Kuningtou and Xiamen's Dadeng Island, Lu said.
- 2012 November 15, Hu Meidong, Sun Li, “Savoring Dadeng island's coastal pleasures”, in China Daily[11], archived from the original on November 18, 2012:
- Located in the southeast waters off Xiamen's Xiang'an district, Dadeng island is one of the closest mainland territories to Taiwan's Jinmen county.
If you stand on the Dadeng Baiha reef, which is only 1,800 meters away from Jinmen, you can see Taiwan with the naked eye.
[...]Another must-do on Dadeng island is to visit the duty-free market that sells food and daily necessities from Taiwan.
- 2019, Xiao Hua Wang, editor, Sediment Dynamics of Chinese Muddy Coasts and Estuaries[12], Academic Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
- 4.2.3 Dredging-Produced SSC Increment and Marine Pollution
In and around Xiamen Bay, there are wildlife conservation areas and tourism functional zones (see Fig. 7), for example, the Chinese white dolphin nature reserve in the Xunjiang water, the Xiamen Branchiostoma conservation between Kinmen and Dadeng, the Xiamen rare and endangered species protection zone located to the south of Xiang'an and Dadeng, and a tourism functional zone along the eastern Xiamen coast. In recent years, however, to support the coastal reclamation projects in Xiamen, extensive dredging works have taken place in Xiamen Bay, especially in the shallow water near Xiang'an and Dadeng areas.
- 2021 May 6, Second Chinese man crosses Taiwan Strait in one week[13], Apple Daily, archived from the original on June 17, 2021:
- Carrying a luggage, Jiang took a taxi from Xiamen in Fujian province to Dadeng Island, where he rowed towards the Kinmen Islands of Taiwan 1.8 kilometers away.
[...]As the Dadeng Isles, which comprises Dadeng, Xiaodeng and Jiaoyu, are located merely several kilometers away from Taiwan’s offshore county of Kinmen, they were used as military bases during the civil war in 1958.
- 2022 October 23, Han Cheung, “Taiwan in Time: ‘Eight years of vicissitude’”, in Taipei Times[14], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 October 2022, Features, page 13:
- The invasion force disbanded on Oct. 29, leaving 250 men stationed on the island. On Nov. 28, the White Hawk Defense Force’s first division took over and set up headquarters in today’s Jincheng (金城) area. Meanwhile, the KMT moved the Kinmen County Government office to Dadeng Island (大嶝島) to the north, which is now part of the city of Xiamen.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dadeng.
Translations edit
subdistrict; island
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