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	Jerome F. Keating's writings
		The name Kinmen (golden gate) comes from when Ming fortifications against marauding pirates were built in 1387, a foreshadowing that war and battles would leave a defining mark on the island.
		Though soldiers in fatigues are seen in the airport and occasionally on the streets, the ROC military presence is not as noticeable as it was twenty to thirty years ago and certainly not as it was in the 1950s and 60s when over 50,000 troops were stationed on the island.
		Kinmen has seen a more favorable side of the KMT which was protecting it from the CCP.
	zen.sandiego.edu:8080 /Jerome/1129894344/index_html (1084 words)

	From the Deputy Director's Desk: And They Killed No Enemy: Taiwan's Landmines, by Joe Lokey (2.3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kinmen Island was not a pleasant place to be on the morning of October 25, 1949.
		The islands of Kinmen and Matsu were declared military zones and proclaimed off-limits to the civilian population.
		Kinmen s military government was dissolved in 1989 and opened to civilian and commercial firms.
	www.maic.jmu.edu /journal/2.3/editors/taiwan.htm (904 words)

	PC(USA) - Mission Connections - Letter
		Kinmen means "Gold Gate." Most Westerners know it by the name, "Quemoy." It has belonged to Taiwan, even though it is 125 miles from Taiwan, ever since the Nationalist forces fled there when they were driven from the Mainland.
		I was on Kinmen to lead a workshop for the four Protestant churches on the island and to preach on Sunday at the church where one of our recent seminary graduates is serving.
		At first his wife was not supportive of the idea of going to Kinmen, but then she also felt that if her husband chose that church's name in the annual evangelists meeting, she would be willing to go.
	www.pcusa.org /missionconnections/letters/mccallj/mccallj_0105.htm (1045 words)

	Welcome to Kinmen! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kinmen can also be said to be the home of the Taiwanese.In 1949, the Nationalist government army retreated to Kinmen.
		In the end of 1993, the county magistrate of kinmen, for the first time in history, was elected by popular vote, and in the spring of the following year, the election of the county council took place.
		The total area of Kinmen is 150.456 square kilometers; it is narrow in the middle and wide on the eastern and western sides.
	www.kinmen.gov.tw /English/eng.htm (634 words)

	battlefield monuments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Thus, Kinmen became an outpost in the defense of free China.
		Kinmen was bombarded for a total of 44 days from August 23rd to October 6th.
		Kinmen continued to receive supplies even though it was under constant fire by the mainland Chinese troops.
	www.kmnp.gov.tw /english/battlefield.htm (866 words)

	Kinmen
		The 12 Kinmen islands are located off the southeastern coast of Mainland China's Fujien Province, covering an area of 150.45 square kilometers.
		The Kinmen islands are 82 nautical miles west of the Pescadore Islands and 150 nautical miles from Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.
		Rain showers in the Kinmen area usually occur from April to August, and typhoons often strike the islands in July and August.
	www.taiwan.com.au /Envtra/Islands/Kinmen (346 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kinmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kinmen Island caught in tug of war: Residents envy wealth of China, Taiwan
		Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor Inc was the Leading Company in Spirits Market in Taiwan.
		Steel anti-tank barricades protrude from the beach on Kinmen Island.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Kinmen (258 words)

	Quemoy
		Quemoy or Kinmen (金門, pinyin Jinmen) is an island administrated by the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan.
		Administratively, it is in the Kinmen County of Fujian Province.
		"Quemoy", meaning "Golden Door", is in the Min language, "Kinmen" an obscure Mandarin Romanization.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ki/Kinmen.html (312 words)

	Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Instead, the bunker castles in Kinmen are just mere resemblance of the unforgettable history and the monument of the cold war.
		Kinmen has served as Taiwan’s military springboard in the past and it is on route to become another springboard for the future.
		However, this time around, Kinmen is looking to turn itself into a place where the creation of the future and soul searching find their roots.
	bmoca.kinmen.gov.tw /eng (231 words)

	Quemoy (Kinmen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 12 Kinmen islands are located off the southeastern coast of Fujian Province, a key position in the Taiwan Strait that blocks the mouth of the Xiamen (Amoy) Bay and protects Taiwan and Penghu Islands.
		Situated in the sea about two kilometers off the coast of Fujian province, Kinmen is separated from Taiwan by approximately 280 kilometers of the Taiwan Straits.The Quemoy Islands are 82 nautical miles west of the Penghu Islands and 150 nautical miles from Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.
		Kinmen was the site of fierce fighting between Communist and Nationalist forces when the latter withdrew from the mainland in 1949.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/taiwan/facility/kinmen.htm (331 words)

	Kinmen travel guide - Wikitravel
		Kinmen 金門 (also called Quemoy) is an outlying island located near the People's Republic of China, but is controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan.
		The late President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, left a calligraphy inscription in Kinmen, urging the ROC troops to fight on and to one day re-take the Mainland from the Communist bandits.
		The steel is obtained from the hundred of thousands of bomb shells that the Communist forces fired at Kinmen, in a failed attempt to take the island away from the Nationalist troops.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kinmen (277 words)

	DEFENSE MINISTER INSPECTS KINMEN AMID BEIJING'S BELLIGERENT RHETORIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kinmen, March 7 (CNA) Defense Minister Tang Fei made an inspection tour the Republic of China's frontline island of Kinmen on Tuesday amid mainland China's new threats of force against Taiwan.
		Tang's Kinmen trip was seen a move to cheer up garrison troops' morale as Beijing has toughened its belligerent rhetoric in the run-up to the ROC's March 18 presidential election.
		Tang's Kinmen tour was also aimed at understanding the Kinmen County Government's development project for the offshore frontline island, which lies closer to mainland China than to Taiwan.
	www.fas.org /news/taiwan/2000/e-03-07-00-15.htm (471 words)

	Taiwan Journal -A Park on the Sea
		Kinmen is a historical legacy because of the battles fought there, giving it a distinguished reputation.
		The Kinmen Archipelago is bordered on the west by the Fukien province on the mainland and the east by the Taiwan Strait.
		When Kinmen was stripped of its trees for boats by Cheng Cheng-kung, it became a wasteland.
	www.taipei.org /teco/cicc/currents/52/Htm/journal1.htm (1151 words)

	CDEX, Inc.
		The comparative analysis showed that the positive explosive indications obtained on Kinmen Island were all signatures in the expected energy range of TNT and were in the same energy range as those signatures for TNT obtained during the Operational Performance Demonstration.
		Further confirmation was obtained by performing a comparison of the individual spectra obtained on Kinmen Island with a sample of the spectra obtained during the Operational Performance Demonstration.
		The comparison of the empirical data obtained during the Operational Performance Demonstration and the data obtained during the field operation on Kinmen Island, that indicated the presence of an explosive, demonstrated that the Kinmen Island data correctly identified the presence of an explosive signature in the expected energy range of TNT.
	www.cdex-inc.com /reportkinmen.html (778 words)

	BirdForum - Bee-eaters and Battlefields(Kinmen).
		The island was occupied by Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalist Forces in their retreat from the Mainland in 1949.The island still remains under the control of the Republic of China on Taiwan though historically Kinmen is a prefecture of Fujian Province.
		The PRC started shelling Kinmen in August 1958 which gave rise to the 20 year long Artillery War which ceased in 1978.The Island has been able to recover from much of the effects of the shellings.
		Kinmen is at its best during the spring and autumn migration periods and in the winter.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=39397 (1150 words)

	CNA-060400
		They also toured defensive fortifications there, and observed Kinmen's port facilities prior to the opening of the "mini three links." Tsai had kept a low profile on her Kinmen trip due to the sensitive nature of cross-strait relations.
		After being briefed on the military situation on Kinmen by Kinmen Defense Command officials, Tsai visited the ports at Shuitou and Liaolowan to inspect the facilities and assess their passenger-handling capacities.
		Kinmen County Magistrate Chen Shui-tzai suggested that a cross-strait consultation center be established in Kinmen and military observers be stationed on both sides so as to establish mutual trust.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /CNA/CNA-060400.htm (578 words)

	Asia Times: China
		Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen made the remarks during a visit to Kinmen, where she called at the Kinmen Garrison Command, the Kinmen county government, the Kinmen county council, and the Liaolo Harbor and Suitou Wharf to inspect the facilities for direct trade and transport links between the island and the mainland.
		Her remarks came a day after Matsu bought a cargo of water from the mainland, while Kinmen county officials were preparing to discuss water purchases with mainland officials the following day.
		She said that the basic stance of the MAC is "self-support and self-sufficiency" and that any decision to buy more water from the mainland will have to be made only after looking at follow-up developments.
	www.atimes.com /china/DE08Ad03.html (323 words)

	Jerome F. Keating's writings
		Abandoned bunkers looking out to the sea dot the shores; signs warning of mine fields guard empty beaches, anti-aircraft and anti-parachutist gun emplacements sit at major crossroads and then of course there are the war museums.
		Kinmen proved its ability to withstand the onslaught, fire back, and keep supplies coming in.
		The famous Kinmen cutlery is made from shells and shell casings, particularly those that carried propaganda leaflets.
	zen.sandiego.edu:8080 /Jerome/1131081140/index_html (720 words)

	Kinmen
		The house in the left has a so-called horse-back ridge of the roof while the house in the right has a swallow-tailed ridge of the roof.
		In kinmen, there're a lot of such ancestral shrines.
		Each clan has its own shrine.The shrine could be used as a venue for worship, elemental school or judgements on various disputes among clan members.
	imageevent.com /wells_kao/kinmen (453 words)

	Scott Sommers' Taiwan Weblog
		National Kinmen Institute of Technology is advertising for a professor of TEFL.
		Kinmen is part of the ROC, but it is not part of
		Today, Kinmen is a blossoming tourist resort with a unique version of Taiwanese-Chinese culture.
	blogs.salon.com /0002422/2003/11/19.html (298 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		KINMEN - Given the pro-Taiwanese identity that has overtaken this island, one would expect to find China-Taiwan relations as tense as they have ever been.
		Given that Taiwan's presidential election this Saturday lacks a ticket committed to unification with China and that voters and political parties have embraced a shift toward independence, each side ought to be as defensive as a taxi driver in Taipei rush hour.
		The Kuomintang's (KMT's) last stand at Kinmen in the 1950s was a successful defense of the frontline island that would continue to link the ROC government to mainland China.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FC19Ad01.html (1233 words)

	The Peking Duck: Kinmen, Taiwan and China: worlds apart
		Posted by: David at October 25, 2005 08:42 PM Like Keir, I have wondered how Kinmen could have remained in ROC hands; in the 50's and 60's it is easy enough since the US was heavily supplying arms and ammunition.
		Ivan, Xiamen is a far, far swim from Kinmen (over an hour by ferry) ; there are a lot of other PRC islands that are a lot closer--and a case of one ROC officer who defected and who allegedly is now well off in China.
		As far as the ROC and the war is concerned, it was ongoing officially until April 30, 1991 when Lee Teng-hui (whom people love or hate) declared the termination of the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion.
	www.pekingduck.org /archives/003058.php (2419 words)

	Beautiful Taiwan - 漂亮臺灣: Kinmen Island - 金門
		It has been said that Kinmen is a 'garden built upon a fortress.
		Indeed, Kinmen is a beautiful island which seems laid back, peaceful, very green & luscious.
		Kinmen is made up of 15 islands & islets at the junction of the mouth of the Chiulung River & Xiamen of mainland China.
	beautifulformosa.blogspot.com /2006/04/kinmen-island.html (374 words)

	Kinmen - Chris's Taiwan Weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kinmen (or Quemoy) is one of several small islands just off the coast of mainland China which, along with Taiwan, remained in the hands of the Chinese nationalists after the Chinese civil war.
		It remained one of the most fiercly contested cold war front lines up until the 1970s and was the focal point of a whole series of international crises with many complex political twists.
		In 1993, the island was opened to tourism (it's even been declared a national park), and in 2001 direct travel from Kinmen by boat to mainland China became possible.
	www.schmidt.mn /taiwan/index.php?/archives/26-Kinmen.html (233 words)

	CNN.com - China sends boat to Taiwan to lift shipping ban - February 6, 2001
		No officials accompanied the entourage, and Kinmen tourism officials say the event was organized by non-government associations from both sides.
		The journey echoes the landmark voyages of two boats from Kinmen and Matsu, another Taiwan-held island, to the mainland on January 2.
		During the January 2 exchange, Kinmen county officials and pilgrims arrived in southern coastal cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou in Fujian and met with Xiamen government officials.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/05/taiwan.boat01 (448 words)

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