Lukang

Lu-kang English Lukang Township, Changhua thumb|zh 鹿港鎮圖書館Lukang Township Library Alternative forms en Lu-kang also from _ Wade-Giles en Lugang Pinyin Etymology From the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 鹿港 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lu⁴-kang³; internationally conventional translation.臺灣地區鄉鎮市區級以上行政區域名稱中英對照表 (2011 June 16), p. 8, "鹿港鎮 Lukang Township 「鹿港」依國際通用、約定俗成方式譯寫" Pronunciation lo͞oʹgängʹen 1952 Lukang or Lu-chiang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1095 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1095/ 2 Proper noun en urban township county/Changhua country/Taiwan. en 1957 w:Chang Chi-yun The Essence of Chinese Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=josyAAAAMAAJ 1072478924 237 The port of Lukang, about 9 miles west of Changhua, and midway between the north and the south, enjoyed a prosperous trade. It is opposite Ch'uanchow, Fukien, 130 miles away, or one day's journey with a fair wind from the latter[...] en 1974 Donald R. DeGlopper Religion and Ritual in Lukang Arthur P. Wolf Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society Studies in Chinese Society https://archive.org/details/religionritualin0000unse/ Stanford w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-0858-4 73-89863 844556505 46 https://archive.org/details/religionritualin0000unse/page/46/ As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of equivalent size. By temple I mean a structure that houses an image, altar, and incense pot, and is freely accessible to the general public. In speaking of the 39 temples of Lukang, I am omitting the numerous small shrines to the unknown dead (Yu Ying Kung), buildings dedicated to ancestors rather than deities (two), Christian churches (four), incense-burner associations that keep their incense pot or image in private homes, and private shrines such as the domestic altars of tang-ki (spirit mediums) or the shrine of the now defunct Ch'üan-chou guild, found in the back room of a drugstore endowed with the guild property.[...]Lukang, seen in comparative perspective, has a lot of temples. en SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 w:Stan Shih China's Hu, Taiwan representative meet at APEC https://web.archive.org/web/20221007111737/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apec-china-taiwan-idUSSYD15297020070909 07 October 2022 w:Reuters Business News “We sat down and talked during a break and he asked where I got my Mandarin accent from. I replied my hometown is Lukang, Taiwan’s second-largest city 200 years ago, where people from China’s Quanzhou settled.” en https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000kell/ Taiwan 9th w:Lonely Planet Robert Kelly; Chung Wah Chow 2014 978-1-74220-135-1 940782019 224 https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000kell/page/224/ In the 19th century silt deposits began to block the harbour, and the city began to decline. To make matters worse, conservative elements in Lukang refused in the early 20th century to allow trains and modern highways to be built near their city. Lukang became a backwater, only to be reborn decades later when modern Taiwanese began to search for a living connection with the past. en 2021 w:Richard C. Bush Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life https://books.google.com/books?id=XXHnDwAAQBAJ Washington, D.C. w:Brookings Institution Press 9780815738336 2021932506 1256636844 274 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Difficult_Choices/XXHnDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&pg=PA274 During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protest movements arose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- the dangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominent movements occurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986. en January 30, 2023 Huang Mei-chu; Jonathan Chin Clinic raises money for Ukraine https://web.archive.org/web/20230130072219/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/01/30/2003793362 30 January 2023 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 3 A Court Clinic became involved in fundraisings for Ukraine after Cai Chuan-te (zh 蔡全德), the medical director of the franchise’s main branch in Changhua’s Lukang Township (zh 鹿港), heard about Chiang’s effort from Hsinchu branch director Chai Shen-yen (zh 翟慎言), the clinic said. en Translations urban township Chinese: Cantonese: yue 鹿港 luk6 gong2 Hokkien: nan-hbl 鹿港 Lo̍k-káng Mandarin: cmn 鹿港 Lùgǎng References Further reading Lukang, Lu-kang, Lugang en 1998 Lukang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1802 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1802/ 3