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Peitou
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from en cmn 北斗 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pei³-tou³.en 2006 Taiwan place names https://web.archive.org/web/20061001212733/https://pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html Pinyin.info This list of city and county names of places in Taiwan gives Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, Tongyong Pinyin, and a commonly seen older form (usually bastardized Wade-Giles).zh 鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old formszh 北斗鎮 / Beidou / Běidǒu / Beidou / Peitou
Proper noun
en Beidou (in Changhua County, Taiwan).
en 1970 General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=QIXkAAAAMAAJ w:Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction 0447-8193 1319792036 40 1 Besides, the educational demonstration programs for rural youths in two selected townships, namely, Peitou in Changhua county and Erlun in Yunlin county, being strengthened to develop future farm operators and rural leadership.
en 1978 農復會卅年紀實: 中國農村復興聯合委員會成立卅週年紀念特刊 https://books.google.com/books?id=GpyRAAAAIAAJ w:Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction 10666852 81 In 1973, a flower extension center was established at Peitou in Changhua county jointly by the Changhua County Farmers' Association, PDAF and JCRR.
en 1995 Donald R. DeGlopper Lukang: Commerce and Community in a Chinese City https://books.google.com/books?id=qXeL6tUjygkC w:State University of New York Press 0-7914-2690-4 95-2525 31900598 77–78 https://books.google.com/books?id=k9Dlscb4VO8C&pg=PA77 During the summer months it was possible to use bamboo rafts on the northernmost channel of the Ch'o-Shui, which ran from the market town of Peitou, and on the southernmost branch, the Huwei, the rafts then proceeding up the coast to Lukang.
en 2007 C.-H. Huang; et al. Zantedeschia mild mosaic virus, a new widespread virus in calla lily, detected by ELISA, dot-blot hybridization and IC-RT-PCR Plant Pathology (journal) Plant Pathology https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01485.x 56 1 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01485.x 1365-3059 45259119 189 1 We thank Dr Ching-Chung Chen for helping to collect calla lily samples from Peitou, Changhua County and Dr Yung-An Lee for critically reviewing the manuscript. https://web.archive.org/web/20221002093811/https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01485.x 2 October 2022
en October 27, 2018 Kuan-pei Chen; Jonathan Chin Changhua movie theater retains heritage status https://web.archive.org/web/20181026203108/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2018/10/27/2003703136 26 October 2018 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 3 The Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday upheld the heritage status of an old movie theater in Changhua County, ending a three-year legal battle between the county’s Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Peitou Township Office, which had sought to build on the site.“Although Peitou (zh 北斗) is a historied township, the town’s former class 3 heritage site, the Tienan Temple, was demolished. If the old theater was also demolished, the culture, history and shared memory of Peitou residents would utterly vanish,” the court said in its ruling.
en About Us https://web.archive.org/web/20200921165059/https://tiwphc.chshb.gov.tw/en.php 21 September 2020 Health Center of Tienwei Township of Changhua county Tienwei lies along the Choshui River basin and is in the form of a long pole. It stretches 9.75 km east and west and measures about 3.38 km across north and south. To the east , it borders Tunglin and Shetou ; on the west , it borders Hsihu and Pitou ; to the south Peitou and to the north Yungching.
en Changhua Irrigation Association https://web.archive.org/web/20220808101115/https://www.ia.gov.tw/En/Intro/Detail/042EA012-CF91-4E55-9590-6F84E3A88B9B 08 August 2022 Irrigation Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan Under administrative order of Dec., 1956, original Papao, Peitou, Changhua, etc. Irrigation Association merged in to Tungyuan canal system for reorganization.
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References
Further reading
en 1952 Peitow or Pei-tou Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1446 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1446/ 1
en 1998 Peitou 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 2393 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2393/ 1
Etymology 2
Borrowed from en cmn 北投 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pei³-tʻou².en 2006 Taiwan place names https://web.archive.org/web/20061001212733/https://pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html Pinyin.info This list of city and county names of places in Taiwan gives Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, Tongyong Pinyin, and a commonly seen older form (usually bastardized Wade-Giles).zh 鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old formszh 北投區 / Beitou / Běitóu / Beitou / Peitou
Proper noun
en Beitou (in Taipei, Taiwan).
en December 22, 1967 Rest & Recuperation for U.S. Fighting Men Time https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-02-07_23_5/ 0040-781X 1311479 56 https://archive.org/details/time-1967-11-17/Time%201967-12-22/page/56/ 1 Twenty minutes by taxi from Taipei is Peitou, a hot-sulphur spa with some 75 hotels, among which one of the most rewarding is the Literary Inn.
en February 7, 1982 Lantern festival is rich in tradition 自由中國週報 Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-02-07_23_5/ XXII 5 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-02-07_23_5/page/n1/ A colorful competition under way at the Kuantu Temple in suburban Peitou as part of the Lantern Festival.
en 1996 Robert M. Marsh Solidarity with Extended Kin The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s https://archive.org/details/greattransformat0000mars/ w:M.E. Sharpe 1-56324-788-7 96-6317 925201650 Residence of a low-income respondent, behind his store on Chung Yang South Road, Section 1, in Peitou district of Taipei. Many homes on this old street were built during the period of Japanese occupation.
en May 02, 2005 Yan-chih Mo Peitou residents battle city over cable car plan https://web.archive.org/web/20050502205701/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/05/02/2003252813 02 May 2005 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 2 The Taipei City Government's latest bid to build a cable car system in the Peitou District has sparked an uproar from local residents and environmentalists, who have been fighting against the project for years.
en NOVEMBER 9, 2007 How about a hot spring spa -- on health insurance? https://web.archive.org/web/20221011220046/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spa-insurance-idUSSAT96365420071109 11 October 2022 w:Reuters Lifestyle Models pose in a hot spring at a hotel in Peitou, Taipei, October 26, 2006. Taiwan's hot springs operators have asked the government to let their customers claim soaks in the therapeutic mineral waters on health insurance.
en 2022 Tzen-Ying Ling Dynamic Flood Resilience Typology: A Systemic Transitional Adaptation from Peitou Plateau, Taiwan https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/2/875 Sustainability (journal) Sustainability 14 2 10.3390/su14020875 2071-1050 926210350 11 of 24 Peitou Plateau is located on the flat southern tip of Peitou District, which is the furthest north of the 12 administrative districts of Taipei City; the plateau is up north of Shetzu Peninsula and at the riverbank of Keelung River (Figure 2). https://web.archive.org/web/20260930122941/https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/2/875 30 September 2026
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References
Further reading
en 1952 Peitow or Pei-t'ou Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1446 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1446/ 1
en 1998 Peitou 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 2393 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2393/ 1
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