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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
P'ing-tung
- Alternative form of Pingtung
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.
2002 February 11, Richard Higgs, “Kemflo International Co. expanding”, in Plastics News, archived from the original on 2020-10-23:Privately held Kemflo International Co. Ltd. operates a 432,000-square-foot molding, tooling and assembly plant in P'ing-tung, Taiwan. […]
The company now has 70 Taiwanese-made presses in P'ing-tung, and it has annual sales of $35 million.
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.
2016 May 24, Amy Tikkanen, Kenneth Pletcher, “Tsai Ing-wen”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, archived from the original on 15 April 2017:Tsai Ing-wen, (born August 31, 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan), educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan (2016– ).
2019 December 8, “Tien Ma’s Cebu serves delectable Taiwanese cuisine”, in MyCebu.ph: Re/Discover Cebu, archived from the original on 22 September 2020:They follow the recipe of Tien Liyuan, who was born in 1932 the Fang-shan township of Taiwan’s P’ing-tung county.
2020 February 10, Katherine Bourzac, “Climate change is destroying our coral reefs. Here’s how scientists plan to save them”, in Chemical & Engineering News, volume 98, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 August 2020:“If you protect the coral reef, you protect the ocean ecosystem,” says Chiahsin Lin, who works on coral preservation at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in P’ing-tung, Taiwan.
2022 March 18, Diana K, “10 of the Most Famous Taiwanese”, in Discover Walks Blog, History and Facts:Born in 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen is an educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “P'ing-tung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1
- P'ing-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica