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Juifang
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 瑞芳 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Jui⁴-fang¹.
Proper noun
en Ruifang.
en 1954 w:Arthur F. Raper; Han-sheng Chuan; Shao-hsing Chen Current Benchmarks for Urban and Rural Taiwan Urban and Industrial Taiwan―Crowded and Resourceful https://archive.org/details/urbanindustrialt0000arth/ Taipei Good Earth Press 1686127 336 https://archive.org/details/urbanindustrialt0000arth/page/336/ One rural area, Jenai township, and one industrial locality, Juifang, showed population decreases. Jenai, a mountainous area, decreased in part because of the population movement of Aborigines to other areas.
en September 2, 1961 9 Killed in Blast w:The Kingston Daily Freeman https://archive.org/details/kingston-daily-freeman-1961-09-02/ Kingston, NY XC 269 16 https://archive.org/details/kingston-daily-freeman-1961-09-02/page/n30/ 2 Nine workers were killed and three seriously injured Friday in an explosion in a coal mine at Juifang in northeast Formosa.
en April 6, 1980 Better living standards for industrial workers 自由中國週報 Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1980-04-06_21_13/ XXI 13 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1980-04-06_21_13/ 2 Late last month, 34 miners were trapped in a flooded pit at Juifang near Taipei, and the search for bodies is still continuing.
en July 11, 1984 133 TAIWAN MINERS ARE TRAPPED BY FIRE DEEP INSIDE TUNNEL https://web.archive.org/web/20150524152924/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/11/world/133-taiwan-miners-are-trapped-by-fire-deep-inside-tunnel.html 24 May 2015 w:The New York Times 0362-4331 1645522 Prime Minister Yu Kuo-hwa went to the mine, near Juifang, to supervise rescue efforts. He was joined by the Economics and Interior Ministers.
en 2003 Vivien Kim Taiwan https://archive.org/details/insightguidetaiw00vivi_0/ w:Insight Guides 9789812349668 1028406778 171 https://archive.org/details/insightguidetaiw00vivi_0/page/171/ Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.
en 2015-08-06 On July 26, 2015, a search & rescue mission for a climber at the Juifang Mountainous Area https://web.archive.org/web/20221014201032/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bJOazMazWTkJ:https://www.nasc.gov.tw/eng/News_Video_Content.aspx%3Fn%3D843%26s%3D40737 14 October 2022 National Airborne Service Corps [zh 內政部空中勤務總隊全球資訊網] At about 17 on July 26, he Airborne Service Corp, MOI received an emergency task inform from the Fire Agency of New Taipei City: “A climber went up the mountain from somewhere nearby Juifang district and carelessly fell over when climbing the 381 peak of Chienlungleng, Panping Mountain.
en November 24, 2015 Hsiao-tung Lai; Jake Chung Museum admission fees mulled https://web.archive.org/web/20151124155027/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/11/24/2003633223 24 November 2016 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 4 Citing the Gold Museum in New Taipei City’s Juifang District (zh 瑞芳), Pai said that trash created by tourists has become a problem and that public restrooms are often not up to sanitary standards due to the large volume of people using them.
en 2016 Andrew Morris The Taiwan Republic of 1895 and the Failure of the Qing Modernizing Project Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan https://books.google.com/books?id=d5oYDQAAQBAJ 9781315291314 959428520 Thus inspired, Wu helped give the Japanese their only real fight on June 1, but Juifang was also quickly taken, with losses of 130 men.
en 04/18/2022 Flor Wang; Worthy Shen Firemen remove 1.5-meter long snake from express train https://web.archive.org/web/20220418114959/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202204180019 18 April 2022 w:Focus Taiwan Society The snake, which appeared on the train when it passed through Juifang station in New Taipei, was captured by firemen from Yilan County after it stopped at Yilan Train Station at around 9:30 a.m., according to the TRA.
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Further reading
en 1952 Juifang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 888 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/888/ 1
en 1998 Juifang 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 1465 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1465/ 1