P'ing-tung

Pingtung English Etymology From en cmn 屏東// en cmn-wadegiles -en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Pingdong/P'ing-tung (Taiwan) romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹. Pronunciation pǐngʹdo͞ongʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Pingtung. en https://archive.org/details/sim_focus-on-geography_1966-12_17_4/ 1966 December Taiwan 17 4 Focus w:American Geographical Society Alice Taylor 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_focus-on-geography_1966-12_17_4/page/n3/ The hilly, mixed crop and forest land produces tea and citronella in the north and bananas and pineapples in the central and southern parts of the island. In the P'ing-tung section of this region some rice is grown, and also bananas, sweet potatoes, soy beans, jute, and millet, but the main crop is sisal. en 1968 P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 17 68-10064 1036882 1092 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/page/n1177/mode/2up 2 P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located nearby. It serves as the seat of the P'ing-tung hsien (country) government. en https://archive.org/details/1979comptonyearb00feco/ 1979 Baseball The 1979 Compton Yearbook w:F. E. Compton 43 https://archive.org/details/1979comptonyearb00feco/page/43/ In the original series, played at Williamsport, Pa., Taiwan won its seventh world championship in ten years. A team from P'ing-tung, a small village in southern Taiwan, beat the U.S. West champs, the San Ramon Valley Little Leaguers of Danville, Calif., 11-1 in the final game. en 1980 Arthur P. Wolf; Chieh-shan Huang Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945 https://archive.org/details/marriageadoption00wolf/ Stanford, Cal. w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1027-9 78-66182 469656299 4747643M 318 https://archive.org/details/marriageadoption00wolf/page/318/ Before beginning his more recent work in Chung-she, Pasternak devoted a year to a study of Ta-t’ieh, a Hakka-speaking community located at the southern end of the coastal plain, 15 miles south of P’ing-tung City (see Map 25.1). en https://archive.org/details/japaneseimmigran00yama/ 1999 Masaaki Yamada Japanese Immigrant Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study of Sustainable Rural Development in the Tropics 1039831480 174 https://archive.org/details/japaneseimmigran00yama/page/n196/ In 1933, he resigned as Castanhal's manager due to his advancing age and disease, and returned to Japan. However, his passion for rice soon led him to a new farm at P'ing-tung, Taiwan, and he eventually died in 1939 at his son's rice plantation in Webster, Texas. en February 11, 2002 Richard Higgs Kemflo International Co. expanding https://web.archive.org/web/20201023021728/https://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20020211/NEWS/302119972/kemflo-international-co-expanding w:Plastics News Privately held Kemflo International Co. Ltd. operates a 432,000-square-foot molding, tooling and assembly plant in P'ing-tung, Taiwan.The company now has 70 Taiwanese-made presses in P'ing-tung, and it has annual sales of $35 million. en 2006 w:John F. Wukovits w:Tobey Maguire https://books.google.com/books?id=-LzY8LqUw3MC w:Lucent Books 9781590187197 61458281 3409655M 46 Ang Lee, who directed Tobey Maguire in 1997's The Ice Storm as well as in 1999's Ride with the Devil, has built an admirable résumé. Born in 1954 in P'ing-tung, Taiwan, Lee attended the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 before coming to the United States. en May 24, 2016 Amy Tikkanen; Kenneth Pletcher w:Tsai Ing-wen https://web.archive.org/web/20170415145745/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tsai-Ing-wen 15 April 2017 w:Encyclopædia Britannica Tsai Ing-wen, (born August 31, 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan), educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan (2016– ). en December 8, 2019 Tien Ma’s Cebu serves delectable Taiwanese cuisine https://web.archive.org/web/20200922171726/https://mycebu.ph/article/tien-ma-cebu-taiwanese-cuisine/ 22 September 2020 MyCebu.ph: Re/Discover Cebu They follow the recipe of Tien Liyuan, who was born in 1932 the Fang-shan township of Taiwan’s P’ing-tung county. en FEBRUARY 10, 2020 Katherine Bourzac Climate change is destroying our coral reefs. Here’s how scientists plan to save them w:Chemical & Engineering News https://web.archive.org/web/20200805140410/https://cen.acs.org/environment/climate-change/Climate-change-destroying-coral-reefs/98/i6 05 August 2020 98 6 0009-2347 567617114 “If you protect the coral reef, you protect the ocean ecosystem,” says Chiahsin Lin, who works on coral preservation at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in P’ing-tung, Taiwan. en March 18, 2022 Diana K 10 of the Most Famous Taiwanese https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/history/10-of-the-most-famous-taiwanese/ Discover Walks Blog History and Facts Born in 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen is an educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan. https://web.archive.org/web/20230315101351/https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/history/10-of-the-most-famous-taiwanese/ 15 March 2023 en Translations Pingtung References Further reading en 1998 P'ing-tung Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2442 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2442/ 1 P'ing-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica