Cumsingmoon or Jinxingmen (Chinese: 金星门港) is an anchorage in Zhuhai, Guangdong, on the southern coast of China, within the Pearl River estuary and close to the former European colonies of Macao and Hong Kong.
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| Traditional Chinese | 金星門港 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 金星门港 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Gate of Venus harbour | ||||||||||
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In the early years of British Hong Kong in the 1840s, Cumsingmoon, together with Nan'ao, was home to an informal "counter-colony" jointly managed by opium merchants and local Chinese officials, helping traders to evade the colonial administration.[1] In 1845, this settlement comprised a self-governing community of 5,000 Chinese and European traders.[2]
El Piñal, a port granted to Spain by the Ming dynasty in 1598–1600, has speculatively been identified with Cumsingmoon.[3]
References
edit- ^ Munn, Christopher (2009). Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841–1880 (2nd ed.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 43. ISBN 9789622099517.
- ^ Munn 2009, p. 385, n. 99.
- ^ Crossley, John (2011). Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate. p. 54. ISBN 9781409425649.
Further reading
edit- Stasko, Thomas McTernan (2013). Moving through the gate of Venus: The history of Cumsingmoon and the coolie trade, 1849–54 (MA thesis). University of Macau.
22°22′53.1″N 113°37′31.1″E / 22.381417°N 113.625306°E
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