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Pingchen
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Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - *平鎮 Píngzhèn en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pʻing²-chên⁴.
Proper noun
en Pingzhen.
en 1979 新聞英語閱讀指導 https://books.google.com/books?id=OGkBLwD3k6cC 9789570507331 1109137650 406 https://books.google.com/books?id=OGkBLwD3k6cC&pg=PA406 The blast, which could be heard 5 kilometers away, occurred around 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 1 at Pingchen, Taoyuan County.
en 2001 Epidemiology Bulletin https://books.google.com/books?id=PJIWGhBkpi8C 17 1021-366X 22815056 87 S. sonnei isolates collected from Pingchen city and Pateh city of Taoyuan county were of pattern 1; those from the primary schools, kindergartens and factories of Lungtan township, Taoyuan county, were of pattern II.
en 2008 M.J. Warsi Linguistic Dynamism in South Asia https://books.google.com/books?id=kPM9KlE8SF8C Gyan Publishing House 978-81-212-1010-2 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=kPM9KlE8SF8C&pg=PA61 Financially sponsored by MOE (Ministry of Education), Yi-hsing Elementary School, in Pingchen County City, Tao-yuan, offers foreign brides courses of 'Classes for Adjustment and Growth for Foreign Brides' for four years, teaching Mandarin phonetic symbols, sentence making, literacy, and newspaper reading, communication with spouse, parents and children, as well as among in-laws, and understanding traffic signs (United Daily News, October 6, 2004:B2).
en July 17, 2008 Rich Chang Two soldiers die as helicopter crashes into building https://web.archive.org/web/20080802215912/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/07/17/2003417702 02 August 2008 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Front Page 1 An army press statement said the helicopter took off at 9:38am from its base in Lungtan to perform a routine training mission around the Lungtan and Pingchen Township (zh 平鎮) area.
en 2018/06/20 Renée Salmonsen Taiwanese police arrest dealer in Taoyuan's largest ketamine bust https://web.archive.org/web/20180620132547/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3461747 20 June 2018 w:Taiwan News Society Taoyuan Police Department's Pingchen City Police Chief, Chang Ren-ching (zh 張仁慶), said that the police received a tip half a month ago that 49-year-old Pan was selling ketamine in karaoke bars and hotels around southern Taoyuan, reported CNA.
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Further reading
en 1952 Pingchen or P'ing-chen Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1475 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1475/ 3
en 1998 Pingchen 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 2441 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2441/ 2