hsiamen

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Xiamen.

   “Bishop Velasco of Hsiamen, China (expelled), expressed himself in complete agreement with Cardinals Ruffini and Browne and was for the schema as it stood.”

   “‘The side-scan FLIRs are picking up heavy thermal flares around Hsiamen and the Signal intelligence monitors are reading defense suppression jamming from what looks like NATO standard ECM. Somebody’s doing some bombing out there. I’m also seeing a formation of surface ships out in the Strait. Man, I wish we could use the radar for a second!’”

   “In January 1822, a large junk named the Tek Sing (or True Star) had set sail from Amoy (modern-day Hsiamen), bound for Batavia.”

   “The aim of this study was to examine the presence of Anaplasma species, including A. phagocytophilum, in small wild mammals captured between 1999 and 2009 in Taichung(24°18'N, 120°60'E), located in central Taiwan, and on Kinmen Island (24°45'N, 118°30'E), which is located off the shore of Hsiamen, Fujian province, China, in1999 (Fig. 1).”

   “This academy was first established in Shanghai on 16th June, 1946, and had relocated thrice. On 1st April, 1947, it moved from Shanghai to Tsingdao. On 21st February, 1949, it moved from Tsingdao to Hsiamen, and to Taiwan on 26th September of the same year. It finally settled at Sze Yin, and has become the cradle of elite naval officers.”