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Lu-kang
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Lukang
English
thumb|Map including Lu-chiang (Rokko) zh 鹿港 (bottom left) (Army Map Service AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 鹿港 Wade-Giles romanization: Lu⁴-kang³.
Proper noun
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en Lukang.
en 1976 Wang Zhenhe Wang Chen-ho Jon Jackson An Oxcart for the Dowry Joseph S. M. Lau Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970 https://archive.org/details/chinesestoriesfr0000unse/ New York w:Columbia University Press 0-231-04007-5 75-43971 603115333 5214089M 90 https://archive.org/details/chinesestoriesfr0000unse/page/90/ At the same time, Chien declared that he must go back to Lu-kang to visit, then on to Taipei for a new supply of clothes.
en 1987 Wen-hui Tsai Huangdah Chiu Taiwan's Social Developments Survey of Recent Developments in China (Mainland and Taiwan), 1985-1986 https://archive.org/details/surveyofrecentde0000unse/ 0730-0107 1223454236 134 https://archive.org/details/surveyofrecentde0000unse/page/134/ The ROC central government approved DuPont’s application to build an agricultural pesticide plant in the Chang-ping Industrial Zone near Lu-kang in August, 1985. However, the residents of Lu-kang and its nearby villages feared that the construction of a DuPont plant would definitely pollute local water and destroy the area’s seashore beauty and fishery. As one of the oldest communities in Taiwan, Lu-kang has a tremendous collection of cultural and historical treasures.
en 1999 Murray A. Rubinstein Taiwan: A New History https://archive.org/details/taiwannewhistory0000unse/ w:M.E. Sharpe 1-56324-816-6 1087897007 8643066M x https://archive.org/details/taiwannewhistory0000unse/page/n11/ South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.
en https://archive.org/details/berkshirediction0000unse/ 2016 Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese biography 4 w:Berkshire Publishing Group 978-1-61472-900-6 727701558 397 https://archive.org/details/berkshirediction0000unse/page/397/ Stan Shih was born on 8 December 1944 in the countryside village of Lu-Kang, located on the western coast of central Taiwan. on
Translations
Lukang
Further reading
Lu-kang, in Encyclopædia Britannica