Jinmen

Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsun^([sic – meaning Tachiu-tsun])] and Xiaoqiucun [Hsiaochiu-tsun] with each covering approximately one square km. Formerly a township under Fujian's Putian County, its main dialect is similar to the one spoken in the Putian and Xianyou area. It was placed under the administration of Jinmen County after the Kuomintang Government retreated from the mainland.

1996 March 21 [1996 March 18], Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) He, “There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 96-056, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2

Chen Yi moved the provincial government inland from the capital Fuzhou to Yongan County in 1938, the same year that the city of Xiamen and Jinmen County fell under Japanese control (see map).

2002, Sara L. Friedman, “Civilizing the Masses: The Productive Power of Cultural Reform Efforts in Late Republican-Era Fujian”, in Terry Bodenhorn, editor, Defining Modernity: Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 159

Xiamen City in east China greeted Jinmen County of Taiwan Province with a display of fireworks Thursday night, the first day of the traditional Chinese lunar New Year or Spring Festival. Xiamen and Jinmen face each other across the sea. The two started festive greetings by letting off fireworks in 1987, but Jinmen has stopped the tradition due to a lack of funds.

2004 January 23, “Mainland City Greets Taiwan County with Fireworks”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2004

For instance, someone had the strange idea of decorating Mofan Street in Jinmen County’s Jincheng Township (金城) by hanging Republic of China “white sun” flags on one side of the street and People’s Republic of China “five star” flags on the other.

2018 January 19, Meng-hsiang Chu, “Flying ‘red’ flags is not ‘expression’”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2018, Editorials, page 8

The same year as receiving this post, Master Hsing Yün [translating 星雲 /星云 (Xīng Yún)] was also invited to propagate the Dharma and confer the Three Refuges among soldiers stationed on Jinmen and Ma-Tzu islands, a task he has continued to perform periodically at various army bases and military academies.

1998 March 10 [1997 June 14], Stuart Chandler, “Establishing Friendly Relations: The Fokuangshan Perspective on the Hsi Lai Temple Political Donations Controversy”, in Investigation of Illegal or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaign: Final Report of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, together with Additional and Minority Views, volume 2 of 6, Government Printing Office, sourced from Harvard University, →OCLC, page 1937

Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan. The transformation of Matsu and Jinmen’s defences has involved turning kilometres of bomb shelters built in the 1960s into historic sites that tourists can ride gondolas through.

2013 June 3, Sarah Mishkin, “Taiwan’s small islands turn to tourism to stay afloat”, in Financial Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2022, Asia-Pacific

In August 1958 a serious crisis erupted again in the Taiwan Strait. This time the Chinese communists subjected the island of Jinmen (Quemoy) and the Mazu (Matsu) archipelago in the Taiwan Strait to a powerful bombardment. At the time one-third of Chiang Kai-shek’s ground forces were stationed there.

2023, Alexander V. Pantsov, “Under Washington's Wing”, in Steven I. Levine, transl., Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 462