Pingtung

P'ing-tung Ping Tung English Pingtung County Alternative forms en P'ing-tung Ping Tung also from _ Wade-Giles en Pingdong Pinyin Etymology 1940s, from en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 屏東// Píngdōng Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹. Pronunciation pĭng′do͝ong′Pingtung or P’ing-tung 1476 2 Pingtung or P’ing-tung (pĭng′do͝ong′), Jap. [Japanese] Heito (hā′tō),Until 1920, called Akow (Jap. [Japanese] Ako). en Ping tung en Proper noun en county in southern c/Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/newsweek41jannewy/page/n502/ February 9, 1953 Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back Harold Lavine w:Newsweek XLI 6 33 https://archive.org/details/newsweek41jannewy/page/n536/ Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They haven't run a mile, and they are rotten with rust. en https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0007unit_w5b5/ 1972 The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State 894A.00/11-447 7 Foreign Relations of the United States 1947 w:Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 468 https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0007unit_w5b5/page/468/ Following article was published in Central News Agency's English Bulletin of October 28, 1947:"President of the Executive Yuan, Chang Chun, returned to the capital at 2:50 this afternoon from Taiwan, after having taken off from Pingtung, Taiwan at 10:40 in the morning. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-01-30_24_5/ January 30, 1983 Aboriginal cultural park Free China Weekly XXIV 5 Taipei 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-01-30_24_5/page/n1/ The Taiwan Provincial Government has decided to spend US$6.4 million in three years starting this fiscal year to build a tourist recreation park near Fuku Bay in Pingtung county in Southern Taiwan. en October 18, 2009 Fire sail in Taiwan w:The Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230822002600/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fire-sail-in-taiwan-vmqckxp5t6x 22 August 2023 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fire-sail-in-taiwan-vmqckxp5t6x 0140-0460 181820531 Villagers and tourists watch as a wooden boat is engulfed by flames during a traditional ceremony in Pingtung county, Taiwan, yesterday to celebrate the end of the eight-day Donggang Wang Ye festival. en https://archive.org/details/ghostmonth0000line_f5a3/ 2014 978-1-61695-541-0 Ghost Month w:Ed Lin w:Soho Press 207 https://archive.org/details/ghostmonth0000line_f5a3/page/207/ "This is really a genuine Paiwan outfit?" I asked."Absolutely," said Jenny. "The gods smile upon anyone who wears this. That's why it feels so uncomfortable. They feel your suffering and your sacrifice.""It hurts, all right," said Nancy."It's painful to look at, too!" I said. Nancy slapped my shoulder."It's the real thing," said the girl with the innocent face. "I'm from Pingtung. My grandmother was part Paiwan." en JULY 31, 2017 Russell Goldman On Heels of Typhoon Nesat, a Second Storm Hits Taiwan w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170801051225/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/world/asia/taiwan-typhoon-nesat.html 01 August 2017 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific A family walked through floodwaters in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan on Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat drenched the island. en 2 January 2026 William Zheng Did a PLA stealth fighter approach a key Taiwan airbase? New video sparks debate w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20260103144247/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3338548/did-pla-stealth-fighter-approach-key-taiwan-airbase-new-video-sparks-debate https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3338548/did-pla-stealth-fighter-approach-key-taiwan-airbase-new-video-sparks-debate 03 January 2026 1563-9371 648902513 Taiwan Pingtung county hosts many of Taiwan’s critical military installations. These include the Jiupeng base, Taiwan’s primary missile and rocket research and testing facility, as well as the Joint Operations Training Base Command, the mechanised infantry brigade barracks and the Dahanshan radar station, which provides early warning. en en city in and the administrative seat of county/Pingtung c/Taiwan. en 1998 Linda Chao; Ramon H. Myers The First Chinese Democracy https://archive.org/details/firstchinesedemo0000chao/ w:Johns Hopkins University Press 0-8018-5650-7 925045805 85 https://archive.org/details/firstchinesedemo0000chao/page/85/ Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control. en August 6, 2022 Taiwan says China's military drills a 'possible simulated attack' https://web.archive.org/web/20220806082119/https://www.dw.com/en/taiwan-says-chinas-military-drills-a-possible-simulated-attack/a-62729444 w:Deutsche Welle Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, was in the southern city of Pingtung on a work trip. en Translations county in southern Taiwan; city in southern Taiwan Chinese: Cantonese: yue 屏東 Mandarin: cmn 屏東 Japanese: ja 屏東 へいとう, Heitō Polish: pl Pingtung m-in Vietnamese: vi Bình Đông References Further reading Pingtung, P'ing-tung, Ping-tung, Pingdong French fr: Etymology fr cmn-wadegiles - romanization of fr zh - *屏東 Píngdōng Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹. Pronunciation [ng:ŋ,u:ou] Proper noun fr county c/Taiwan Pingtung