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English
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization[1] of Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng).
Proper noun
Tsungming
- (dated) Synonym of Chongming
1883, S. Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants, revised edition, volume I, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC, page 22:The fall of the Yangtsz’ is nearly double that of the Nile and Amazon, and half that of the Mississippi. The amount of water discharged is estimated at 500,000 cubic feet a second at Íchang, about 700 miles up, and it may reasonably be concluded that at Tsungming it discharges in times of flood a million cubic feet per second.
1897, A. McLean, “From Shanghai to Nankin”, in A Circuit of the Globe: A Series of Letters of Travel Across the American Continent, through the Hawaiian Republic, Japan, China, the Straits Settlements, Burma, India, Ceylon, Australia, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Scandinavia, France and England, St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company, page 131:Mr. Ware arranged that we should call on the way at several out-stations in his district. This made it needful for us to go partly by water and partly by land. The first place which we wished to visit is Tsungming. This is a large island in the mouth of the Yangtsze, with a population of a million.
References
- ^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese)., Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 95: “The romanisation adopted is […] that used by the Chinese Post Office. […] Tsungming 崇明縣 Kiangsu 江蘇 31.37N 121.24E Tsungming Island 崇明島 " 江蘇 31.40N 121.30E”