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Chang-hua
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Changhua chánghuà
English
Etymology
From en cmn 彰化 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chang¹-hua⁴.
Proper noun
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en Changhua.
en https://archive.org/details/chineserecorder26lodwuoft/page/n463/ 1895 October Diary of Events in the Far East w:Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal XXVI 10 499 https://archive.org/details/chineserecorder26lodwuoft/page/499/ September, 1895.1st.—The following telegram from Taipeh, indicates Japanese progress in Formosa:—"Chang-hua, the principal inland city, about half-way down the island, was taken by the Japanese on the 28th ult., after a battle in which the Chinese lost nearly six hundred, and the Japanese nine."
en 1970 Leonard H. D. Gordon Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History https://archive.org/details/taiwanstudiesinc0000unse/ w:Columbia University Press 0-231-03376-1 78-108096 905626743 4761243M 41 https://archive.org/details/taiwanstudiesinc0000unse/page/41/ In Chang-hua and Tainan the local gentry who managed the finances and supplies for the war effort had a more difficult task. Records indicate that they relied heavily on salt, likin, and customs duties, but also had to resort to more extraordinary means to gain revenue and provisions. The Chang-hua managers, for instance, sometimes confiscated the properties of wealthy inhabitants who had fled the scene.
en 1991 Simon Long Taiwan: China's Last Frontier https://archive.org/details/taiwanchinaslast00long/ w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-05273-1 90-43872 22114974 21 https://archive.org/details/taiwanchinaslast00long/page/21/ Under Liu, an east-west road was also built, starting from Chang-hua in the west and crossing the mountains.
en 1992 James Reardon-Anderson Pollution, Politics, and Foreign Investment in Taiwan: The Lukang Rebellion https://archive.org/details/pollutionpolitic0000rear/ w:M. E. Sharpe 0-87332-702-0 92-29888 26634988 8377293M 7 https://archive.org/details/pollutionpolitic0000rear/page/7/ The ministry may have been more anxious to sell property in the Chang-pin Zone than DuPont or other outsiders realized. Construction of the zone, a massive landfill off the coast of Chang-hua County, began in 1979 as part of a plan to bring more industry, particularly petrochemicals, to the center of the island, which had lagged behind the magnets of development in the north and south.
en https://archive.org/details/englishpenguindictionaryofliterary/Difficulties_in_Learning_English_as_a_Se/ 2006 May James B. Weld Difficulties in Learning English as a Second or Foreign Language w:Regis University 37 https://archive.org/details/englishpenguindictionaryofliterary/Difficulties_in_Learning_English_as_a_Se/page/n40/ She grew up in Chang-hua, a city in central Taiwan with a decidedly country flavor.
Translations
Changhua
Further reading
Chang-hua, in Encyclopædia Britannica
en 1979 Ch’ang-huaChang-hua or Chang-hwa The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 145 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/145/ 2
Anagrams
en aacghhnu Hang-chau