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Kao-hsiung
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Kaohsiung
English
thumb|Map of the South China Sea including Kao-hsiung (upper right)
Etymology
From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 高雄 Kao¹-hsiung².en 1962 Linguist https://books.google.com/books?id=JEcdAQAAMAAJ 24 296 1 En route we ran into one of the crewmen of the freighter, for whom Kao¹ Hsiung², sometimes written Kaohsiung, was not a new port.en 2005 Jeroen Wiedenhof Jeroen Wiedenhof Purpose and effect in the transcription of Mandarin Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Studies 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20070319162614/https://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/tk/pbl/articles/purp&eff.pdf https://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/tk/pbl/articles/purp&eff.pdf May 19, 2007 390 Within the same plate, place names in China are spelled in Pīnyīn without tone symbols, e.g. “Quanzhou” for zh 泉州, Pīnyīn Quánzhōu, Wade Giles Ch’üan²-chou¹; but place names in Taiwan reflect the Wade-Giles system, again dispensing with tones: “Kao-hsiung” and “Kaohsiung” for zh 高雄, Wade Giles Kao¹-hsiung², Pīnyīn Gāoxióng.
Pronunciation
gouʹshyo͝ongʹ
Proper noun
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en Kaohsiung.
en https://archive.org/details/NitedStatesRelationsWithnChina/page/n833 1949 United States Relations With China w:United States Department of State 796 Plans have been made by the National Resources Commission for the rehabilitation and expansion of three plants in Taiwan, at Kao-hsiung, Tsu-Tung and Suao (the latter is poorly located and was badly damaged by bombing); by the Kwa Hsin Cement Company for the development of a new plant at Tayeh, for the rehabilitation and expansion from 200 to 500 tons per day of the North China Cement Company, and the development of the Hunan Cement Company with a capacity of 500 tons per day.
en https://archive.org/details/commence51john/page/15 1951 Conferring of Degrees at the Close of the Seventy-fifth Academic Year w:Baltimore 15 KUANG CHI LIANG, of Kao-hsiung, Formosa, China, M. D.Taihoku Imperial University, 1945.
en 1968 Norton S. Ginsburg KAO-HSIUNG (Japanese TAKAO) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita13chic/ 13 68-10064 1036882 224 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita13chic/page/n239/ 1 After World War II Kao-hsiung came to handle more than half of the island's imports and nearly three-fourths of its exports, chiefly salt, sugar, cement and canned pineapples.
en 1976 1975 Kuno Knöbl Rita Kimber; Robert Kimber Tai Ki: To the Point of No Return https://archive.org/details/taikitopointofno0000knob/ w:Little, Brown and Company 0-316-49950-1 75-43921 1976041 10427559M 103 https://archive.org/details/taikitopointofno0000knob/page/103/ More indecision. The southern tip of Taiwan is nearly astern of us. This is where we are scheduled to cut loose from our tow. Everything depends on our captain, for we had all agreed in advance that he would have the last word in all nautical matters. Then he passes on his instructions to the towboat by radio: reverse course and head for Kao-hsiung.
en 1998 Introduction No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu https://archive.org/details/notraceofgardene0000yang/ w:Yale University Press 0-300-07070-5 97-15641 36877368 669772M xxvi https://archive.org/details/notraceofgardene0000yang/page/n31/ On a tour to the free-trade zone in Kao-hsiung in southern Taiwan the poet notes sarcastically the discrepancy between the pride with which the senior official who guides the tour obviously speaks of Kao-hsiung as the “largest Chinese harbor” and the shame the poet keenly feels on seeing “all thirty-five thousand female workers leaving work at the same time.”
en 2015 w:Ha Jin A Map of Betrayal https://archive.org/details/mapofbetrayal0000jinh_o9a2/ Thorndike, Maine Center Point Large Print 978-1-62899-458-2 2014041772 904786163 30103561M 205 https://archive.org/details/mapofbetrayal0000jinh_o9a2/page/205/ She'd once had a boyfriend in Kao-hsiung, a journalist who'd died in a ferry accident seven years before. That man was an overseas Chinese from Indonesia but had lived in Taiwan most of his life.
en Aug 22, 2020 University voids Jane Lee’s degree https://web.archive.org/web/20200823053945/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/08/22/2003742096 23 August 2020 w:Taipei Times National Sun Yat-sen University on Wednesday said that it would revoke the master’s degree of Kao-hsiung City Councilor Jane Lee (zh 李眉蓁), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate in the Kaohsiung mayoral by-election on Saturday last week, as it has found that her thesis was largely plagiarized.
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Translations
Kaohsiung
References
Further reading
en 1979 Kao-hsiung or Kao·hiung The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 371 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/371/ 2
en 1998 Kao-hsiung 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 1500 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1500/ 3
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