Citations:Hengqin

English citations of Hengqin

Island

• [1910 July 23 [1910 July 18], “THE MACAO AFFAIR”, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art‎^[1], volume LIV, number 4, Yokohama, page 102, column 2:

  A strange telegram comes from Peking. It says that at some date prior to the 11th inst., a Chinese squadron attacked the Portuguese gun-boats lying off Hengchin Island, and inflicted a loss of over 10 killed and wounded. The Governor of Macao at once despatched reinforcements which bombarded the island and caused many casualties.]

• 2013 July 14, Joyce Lau, Calvin Yang, “University of Macau Moves Over the China Border”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 July 2013, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

  When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.

• 2016, “Timeline”, in Geoffrey C. Gunn, editor, Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow‎^[4], HKU Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 194:

  1937 (3 December) Memorandum on boundaries of Macau relating to Lapa, Dom João and Vong Cam (Montanha) signed between consul for Portugal and consul for Japan in Hong Kong.
  1937 (28 December) Japanese bombing of Montanha (Hengqin) Island and Portuguese occupation of Man Lio Ho village.

• 2019 June 14, “Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese”, in Macau Business‎^[5], archived from the original on 16 September 2023‎^[6]:

  Perhaps it would have been simpler if, like Taipa and Coloane, the Portuguese had physically merged Macau with two other islands: Montanha and Dom João (Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin, in Cantonese, with Montanha known as Tai Vong Cam).
  In several documents of the 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century these two islands appear as part of the colony of Macau, but it is true that they never held strategic or economic interest for the Portuguese – which is understandable: while the island now known as Hengqin occupies a total land area of 106.46 square kilometres, only 28 are good for development.

• 2021 November 21, “On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out”, in South China Morning Post‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 November 2021‎^[8]:

  It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively.
  The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula.

• 2022 October 28, “Guangdong man infected with Covid-19 visited Macau earlier this week”, in Macau Business Media‎^[9], archived from the original on 2022-10-28‎^[10]:

  He reportedly left Macau with his friends on the night of 25 October (Tuesday) for Hengqin to drive home. They were immediately taken to quarantine upon arrival in Yeungkong city.

New Area

• 2013 October 5, Farah Master, Beijing Newsroom, “China gambles on theme park, whale sharks to lure punters from Macau casinos”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters‎^[11], archived from the original on 11 October 2023‎^[12]:

  “Macau is small and there are too many people. It needs to be expanded. Chimelong is a good complement. It is positioned as leisure tourism,” said Niu Jing, director of the administrative committee, or local government, of the Hengqin New Area.