Kongmoon
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Postal Romanization[1] of Cantonese 江門／江门 (gong1 mun4).
Proper noun edit
Kongmoon
- Dated form of Jiangmen.
- 1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China[2], Shanghai: "The National Review" Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 111:
- Reaching Samshui the stream bifurcates, one branch moving northward past Fatshan and Canton, thence being known as the Chu Kiang or Pearl River, and the other still retaining the name of West River and sweeping past Kongmoon to the sea.
- 1945, Mark Tennien, Chungking Listening Post[3], New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., →OCLC, page 37:
- The Japanese Army had taken Kongmoon, South China, in 1939, but the American priests there went on with their mission tasks and in addition dispensed rice and wheat daily to the thousands of starving refugees.
- 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic[4], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:
- With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki.