Heungshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heung Shan
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 香山 (hoeng1 saan1), the former name of Zhongshan.
Senses: examples: text: In accordance with the urgent resolutions unamimously passed by this meeting, Sir John boldly departed from Elgin’s line of policy and issued (July 31, 1858) a proclamation emphatically threatening the Heungshan and Sanon Districts with the retributive vengeance of the British Government if servants and food supplies were withheld any longer. Copies of this proclamation were successfully delivered at Heungshan by a party of British marines, but when H.M.S. Starling conveyed copies of the same proclamation to Sanon, a boat’s crew, while under a flag of truce, were fired upon by the braves of Namtao.
ref: 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, page 320:
text: The Portuguese have always claimed for Macao an independence of Chinese jurisdiction which the Chinese government, until 1887, never admitted. Much has been said of a “Golden Chop” constituting the charter of the colony, which is said to have been granted by the Chinese emperor, and to have been lost; but there is no record that any unofficial person ever saw it. The facts are all against the claim. Rent, a full recognition of sovereignty, was paid to the Heungshan Hien, from the very beginning until Governor Amaral's coup d’état in 1849.
ref: 1910, Hosea Ballou Morse, The International Relations Of The Chineses Empire, Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 43–44:
text: The principal lichee-producing districts in Kwangtung Province are Namhoi, Pun Yu, Tsang Shing, and Tung Kun. Some lichees are grown in the Heungshan, Shuntak, and Samshui districts, and while they are produced in abundance in the Yeung Kong and Shui Tung districts they are of inferior quality.
ref: 1915 September 24, F. D. Cheshire, “The Famous Lichee of China”, in Commercial Reports: Daily Consular and Trade Reports, volume 3, number 224, page 1434:
text: Hong-Kong The gage has been thrown down to Portugal by the Chinese of the Heungshan district, and unless the Lisbon Government is cautious in the handling of its affairs at Macao it will lose the colony. Two days ago (May 29) the Viceroy of the Liang-Kwang provinces journeyed from Canton and opened the port of Heungchow to trade. This is the first overt step taken in the agitation among the Chinese to demonstrate to Portugal that any effort to retain land and waterways, alleged by the Chinese to have been wrongly occupied, will be strongly resented. Heungchow is about ten miles to the north-east of Macao and there is nothing as yet to suggest that in time it will become a thriving port.
ref: 2009 May 31, “In Our Pages 100, 75, 50 Years Ago”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018, Opinion:
text: Heungshan (Xiangshan) District was renamed Chungshan (Zhongshan) District in 1925 in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who led the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and founded the Republic of China. In 1965 the Wong Leung Do area separated from Chungshan District to become Doumen District. Today, Doumen District is a part of Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City.
ref: 2010, Nancy J. Rosenbloom, “The Boundaries of Convention in the Gilded Age, 1880-1900”, in Women in American History since 1880: A Documentary Reader, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: Former name of Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).
Related terms: Xiangshan