Miaoli

Miao-li English Miaoli County Alternative forms en Miao-li also from _ Wade-Giles Pronunciation myouʹlēʹen 1952 Miaoli Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1196 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1196/ 1 Jap. [Japanese] Byoritsu en Etymology 1 From the Wade–Giles romanization of en cmn 苗栗 Miáolì, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Miao²-li⁴. Proper noun en county in western country/Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-06-13_23_23/ June 13, 1982 Wood-carving art thrives in small town Free China Weekly XXII 23 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-06-13_23_23/page/n1/ Wood-carving, one of Taiwan's leading folk arts, is concentrated on the small village of Sanyi in Miaoli county in north-central Taiwan, where the people have traditionally had the necessary skills and ample access to timber materials.Woodcarving is one of Taiwan's leading folk arts, and Sanyi village in Miaoli county is the center of production. en DECEMBER 22, 2019 Rik Glauert FEATURE -Taiwan emerges as new market for LGBT+ surrogacy after gay marriage law https://web.archive.org/web/20220508161348/https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-lgbt-familyplanning-idINL8N2883ZS 08 May 2022 Non-cyclical Consumer Goods w:Reuters Jack, 31, who lives with his boyfriend of nine years in Miaoli County in the west of Taiwan, has created an embryo in a country in Europe and is currently in the process of having it transferred to the surrogate. en June 18, 2021 Amy Chang Chien; Amy Qin In Taiwan, some foreign tech workers are confined indoors to tackle an outbreak. w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210618093718/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/world/asia/taiwan-migrant-labor-covid.html 18 June 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/world/asia/taiwan-migrant-labor-covid.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Under the measures announced last week by the authorities in the central county of Miaoli, thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Vietnam and the Philippines, are prevented from leaving their dormitories except to travel to and from their jobs at high-tech factories. en en city and the administrative seat county/Miaoli country/Taiwan. en https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Japan_Daily_Mail/shFDAQAAIAAJ November 11, 1899 Formosa The Japan Weekly Mail XXXII 20 Yokohama 491 In the middle of last month the Miaoli post office was the scene of a raid. Some thirty bandits broke into the place and attempted to rifle the safe. en 1903 William Campbell Formosa Under the Dutch https://archive.org/details/cu31924023514403/ w:Clarendon Press 2532095 599 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023514403/page/n618/ Peking Gazette, the-(continued).Volume for 1890.Nov. 7. Typhoon at Tai-pei, Kelung, Tamsui, and Miaoli on 16 August. en https://archive.org/details/scarboromission39sfms/ 1958 The Faith and Formosa Scarboro Missions 39 11 22 https://archive.org/details/scarboromission39sfms/page/22/ About a half hour down the main highway by jeep we come to Toufen where the multi-million dollar China Artificial Fibre Corporation has a large plant. This city is in the deanery of Miaoli, the southern-most part of the Archdiocese of Taipeh. Here Fr. James A. McCormick, M.M. hopes to dedicate the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on July 16th. en 1962 Sister Maria del Rey Safari by Jet https://archive.org/details/safaribyjetthrou00mari/ New York w:Charles Scribner's Sons 183 62-17726 1262481 https://archive.org/details/safaribyjetthrou00mari/page/183/ Such a welter of languages! Spellings and pronunciations are anybody's fair game. There are so many right ways in Taiwan that any one them is the wrong way to millions. Each city and town has a Mandarin name, a Taiwanese name, an old Japanese name and, in the mountains, an aborigine name. In the Miaoli area, a Hakka name as well. This makes letter writing or travel a fascinating sport. Even the name of the island is vastly under dispute. You can whip up a bloody battle by calling it Formosa. Protagonists for Taiwan of Free China see red. en Translations county in western Taiwan Chinese: Cantonese: yue 苗栗 miu4 leot6 Hokkien: nan-hbl 苗栗 Biâu-li̍k Mandarin: cmn 苗栗 Miáolì Japanese: ja 苗栗 びょうりつ, Byōritsu Vietnamese: vi Miêu Lật Further reading en 1998 Miaoli 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 1968 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1968/ 3 Etymology 2 From en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 廟李. Proper noun en historical en town district/Jinshui prefecture-level city/Zhengzhou province/Henan country/China. Translations former town in central China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 廟李 Miàolǐ Japanese: ja References Further reading Miaoli, Miao-li