Jinhu
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From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金湖 (Jīnhú).
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Jinhu
- A county of Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.
- An urban township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
- 2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan[1], 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 201–202:
- Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song[sic – meaning Liang-gong] (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.
- 2015 August, Simon Foster, Stephen Keeling, “The Taiwan Strait Islands”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides)[2], 3rd edition (Travel), Penguin Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 364:
- Kinmen’s second-largest settlement, SHANWAI (often referred to as Jinhu township), is mostly populated with young soldiers.
- 2019 April 11, Keoni Everington, “3rd dead pig found on Kinmen shore tests positive for ASF”, in Taiwan News[3], archived from the original on 12 April 2019, Food Safety & Health[4]:
- At a press conference Wednesday, the center announced that a pig carcass was found to have drifted ashore in Kinmen's Jinhu Township on Sunday (April 7).
- 2021 May 26, Jerome Keating, “The Kinmen and Matsu challenge”, in Taipei Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2021, Editorials[6]:
- Chiseled into rock in Kinmen County’s Jinhu Township (金湖) are the Chinese characters for one of Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) favorite memes. Translated they read: “Remember our days at Ju” (毋忘在莒), referencing the Warring States period when the armies of the state of Qi were forced to retreat to the city of Ju. Once there, they regrouped and returned to regain their lost territory.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jinhu.