Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Maoming.
Mr. Yang Yung-t'ai was born at Mao-ming Hsien, Kuangtung province, in 1880.
1925, “Mr. Yang Yung-tai 楊永泰字暢卿”, in M. C. Powell, editor, Who's Who in China 中國名人錄, 3rd edition, Shanghai: China Weekly Review, page 9143 more examples
Deposits of oil were being opened near Mao-ming in western Kwangtung, and a railroad was built linking Mao-ming first to Canton¹²⁰ and later to Chan-chiang.
1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968, Harvard University Press, page 238The crude is transshipped from Chan-chiang by rail to the refinery at Mao-ming. A rumored pipeline under construction from Chan-chiang to Mao-ming has not been confirmed.
1977, CIA, China Oil Production Prospects, page 31The only other major railroad in Kwangtung (completed in the 1950s) links the far western port of Chan-chiang and the shale-oil-producing city of Mao-ming to Kwangsi Province.
1978, William L. Parish, Martin King Whyte, “Kwangtung Province”, in Village and Family in Contemporary China, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20
Origin
- Mandarin茂名
- EnglishMao-ming
From Mandarin 茂名 (Màomíng), Wade-Giles romanization: Mao⁴-ming².
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