Citations:P'ing-tung

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English citations of P'ing-tung

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  • 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus‎, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4:
    The hilly, mixed crop and forest land produces tea and citronella in the north and bananas and pineapples in the central and southern parts of the island. In the P'ing-tung section of this region some rice is grown, and also bananas, sweet potatoes, soy beans, jute, and millet, but the main crop is sisal.
  • 1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2:
    P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located nearby. It serves as the seat of the P'ing-tung hsien (country) government.
  • 1979, “Baseball”, in The 1979 Compton Yearbook‎, F. E. Compton, page 43:
    In the original series, played at Williamsport, Pa., Taiwan won its seventh world championship in ten years. A team from P'ing-tung, a small village in southern Taiwan, beat the U.S. West champs, the San Ramon Valley Little Leaguers of Danville, Calif., 11-1 in the final game.
  • 1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945‎, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:
    Before beginning his more recent work in Chung-she, Pasternak devoted a year to a study of Ta-t’ieh, a Hakka-speaking community located at the southern end of the coastal plain, 15 miles south of P’ing-tung City (see Map 25.1).
  • 1999, Masaaki Yamada, Japanese Immigrant Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study of Sustainable Rural Development in the Tropics‎, →OCLC, page 174:
    In 1933, he resigned as Castanhal's manager due to his advancing age and disease, and returned to Japan. However, his passion for rice soon led him to a new farm at P'ing-tung, Taiwan, and he eventually died in 1939 at his son's rice plantation in Webster, Texas.
  • 2006, John F. Wukovits, Tobey Maguire‎, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46:
    Ang Lee, who directed Tobey Maguire in 1997's The Ice Storm as well as in 1999's Ride with the Devil, has built an admirable résumé. Born in 1954 in P'ing-tung, Taiwan, Lee attended the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 before coming to the United States.
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