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Chungshan
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Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 中山 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chung¹-shan¹. Chungshan is also a romanization of en yue - 中山 zung1 saan1, the name of the city in Guangdong, China, and it coincides with its Mandarin romanization of Chungshan.
Proper noun
en Zhongshan (Guangdong, China)
en https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4HFiWAUn-HAC&dq=Shuntak&source=gbs_navlinks_s March 30, 1931 Extent of Kwangtung's Silk Industry Commercial Reports: A Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade 13 813 About one-seventh of the world’s output of raw silk is produced in the Province of Kwangtung, where the principal districts from the standpoint of value of raw-silk production are Shuntak, Chungshan, Namhoi, Sunwui and Samshui. All the silk business of Kwangtung Province centers in Shuntak (south of Canton, in the Canton delta area).
en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.10565/page/4/mode 2 Nov 1942 The Bombay Chronicle Engagements in S. China 4 Today’s communique reported engagements in Kwangtung in extreme South China. “The Chinese are advancing against enemy position at Chungshan, the Birthplace of Sun Yat Sen.—Reuter.
en 1962 Chalmers A. Johnson Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945 https://archive.org/details/peasantnationali0000unse/ Stanford University Press 62-16949 1151073690 5855473M 68 https://archive.org/details/peasantnationali0000unse/page/68/ After this operation one battalion was left to garrison Chungshan; one company occupied Hsiaolan, about 25 kilometers northwest of Chungshan; and two companies patrolled the mountains north of Macao. In addition to this force, some 3,000 Nanking puppet troops were assigned peace preservation duties in the Chungshan area.
en 1966 George P. Jan Government of Communist China https://archive.org/details/governmentofcomm0000jang Chandler Publishing Company 66-16015 229441 463 https://archive.org/details/governmentofcomm0000jang/page/463/ In Kwangtung Province, more than 45,000 cadres were sent to communes from the cities. Tʻao Chu, first secretary of the CPC Kwangtung provincial committee, worked as a county Party secretary in Chungshan County.
en 2001 Peter Leung; Tony Waters Chinese Pioneer Farming Families in Suisun Valley (1870-1980) 150 Years of the Chinese Presence in California (1848-2001): Honor the Past, Engage the Present, Build the Future https://archive.org/details/150yearsofchines0000unse/ Sacramento Chinese Culture Foundation 0-9716186-0-7 49361551 11782010M 47 https://archive.org/details/150yearsofchines0000unse/page/n58/ Fourth, the Chinese who settled in the Suisun Valley all came from the same district of Loong Doo, Chungshan County, Guangdong, China, while the majority of Chinese who settled in the Sacramento River Delta were from other parts of the same county.
en 2010 Nancy J. Rosenbloom The Boundaries of Convention in the Gilded Age, 1880-1900 Women in American History since 1880: A Documentary Reader https://archive.org/details/womeninamericanh0000unse_a7m5/ w:Wiley-Blackwell 978-1-4051-9049-7 465680705 41 https://archive.org/details/womeninamericanh0000unse_a7m5/page/41/ 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.
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en Zhongshan (ancient kingdom)
en https://archive.org/details/shantungsacredpr00forsrich/ 1912 Robert Coventry Forsyth Shantung the Sacred Province of China Shanghai w:Christian Literature Society for China 6576757 42 https://archive.org/details/shantungsacredpr00forsrich/page/42/ Strange copper objects found in western Manchuria and procured by the writer from an itinerant dealer in refuse-copper. These are exaggerated likenesses of spade-cash, but are not described in any works on coins. They are marked Chung Shan (zh 中山). No. 16 has Er (zh 二, two) with the characters Chung Shan inverted. Note also the duplicated lines of the inscription. Chungshan was an ancient State in western Chihli, bordering on Manchuria. These may be clumsy imitations of the old Chinese coinage, cast by the half-civilized tribes on the border. They are undoubtedly very ancient.
en 1979 January Capital of One of the Warring States w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1979-01/ w:China Welfare Institute XXVIII 1 0009-4447 1554324 40 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1979-01/page/n41/ 2 The State of Chungshan had previously had its capital in Tinghsien county northeast of Shihchiachuang and more toward the center of Hopei province
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en Zhongshan (Taiwan)
en November 13, 1983 Home Ownership Rate Rises To 75 Percent In 1983 自由中國週報 Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-11-13_24_45/ XXIV 45 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-11-13_24_45/ 3 The greatest rate of increase in land value in the main business sectors of the city lies in the area of Chienkuo North Road in the Chungshan District, where land increased in price to US$1,350 per square meter, a rise of 3.3 percent over last year.
en 1994 July Robert Storey Taipei - Things to See & Do Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit https://archive.org/details/lonelyplanettaiw00rob_fn4/ 3rd w:Lonely Planet 0-86442-228-8 38833257 8314521M 137 https://archive.org/details/lonelyplanettaiw00rob_fn4/page/137/ 1 In 1984, it was decided to reconstruct the building in Pinchiang Park (bīnjiāng gōngyuán) in the Chungshan District, just east of Hsinsheng N Rd and north of Mintsu E Rd. The only unfortunate thing about this location is that it’s right in the landing path of Sungshan Airport - aircraft come in so low it’s a wonder they don’t knock the roof ornaments off.
en 1996 Robert M. Marsh The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s https://archive.org/details/greattransformat0000mars/ w:M.E. Sharpe 1-56324-788-7 96-6317 925201650 Old wooden dwelling over a store on Nung An Street, Chungshan district of Taipei.
en January 27, 2003 Yun-Ping Chang Holiday bazaars attract Taipei shoppers https://web.archive.org/web/20221012124646/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/01/27/0000192594 12 October 2022 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 2 In the Chungshan district, there is the Siping Street New Year Shopping Promenade.
en 24 October 2017 How fireflies were brought back from the brink in urban Taipei https://web.archive.org/web/20171024065715/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2116725/how-fireflies-were-brought-back-brink-urban-taipei w:South China Morning Post Society Over the past four years, Taipei has spent NT$50 million (about US$1.6 million) on the project, which has established sustainable firefly populations in the Wenshan, Daan and Chungshan districts of the city.
en Humble House Taipei https://web.archive.org/web/20221012105713/http://www.mhh-group.com/websev?lang=en&ref=pages&cat=5&subcat=&id=41 12 October 2022 My Humble House Group Humble Boutique Hotel is located in the Chungshan District of Taipei City, the hotel is just one-minute walk from Songjiang Nanjing MRT Station.
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