Peitou

Borrowed from Mandarin 北斗 (Běidǒu) Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-tou³.^[1]

Peitou

1. Alternative form of Beidou (in Changhua County, Taiwan).
   • 1970, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 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.

   • 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‎, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, page 81:

     In 1973, a flower extension center was established at Peitou in Changhua county jointly by the Changhua County Farmers' Association, PDAF and JCRR.

   • 1995, Donald R. DeGlopper, Lukang: Commerce and Community in a Chinese City‎, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 77–78:

     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.

   • 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”, in Plant Pathology‎, volume 56, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 189, column 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.

   • 2018 October 27, Kuan-pei Chen, Jonathan Chin, “Changhua movie theater retains heritage status”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 October 2018, Taiwan News, page 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 (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.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “About Us”, in Health Center of Tienwei Township of Changhua county‎, archived from the original on 21 September 2020‎:

     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.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Changhua Irrigation Association”, in Irrigation Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan‎, archived from the original on 08 August 2022‎:

     Under administrative order of Dec., 1956, original Papao, Peitou, Changhua, etc. Irrigation Association merged in to Tungyuan canal system for reorganization.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peitou.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Peitow or Pei-tou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1446, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Peitou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2393, column 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 北投 (Běitóu) Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-tʻou².^[1]

Peitou

1. Alternative form of Beitou (in Taipei, Taiwan).
   • 1982 February 7, “Lantern festival is rich in tradition”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎, volume XXII, number 5, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     A colorful competition under way at the Kuantu Temple in suburban Peitou as part of the Lantern Festival.

   • 1996, Robert M. Marsh, “Solidarity with Extended Kin”, in The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page :

     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.

   • 2005 May 2, Yan-chih Mo, “Peitou residents battle city over cable car plan”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2005, Taiwan News, page 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.

   • 2007 November 9, “How about a hot spring spa -- on health insurance?”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 11 October 2022, 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.

   • 2022, Tzen-Ying Ling, “Dynamic Flood Resilience Typology: A Systemic Transitional Adaptation from Peitou Plateau, Taiwan”, in Sustainability‎, volume 14, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 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).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peitou.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Peitow or Pei-t'ou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1446, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Peitou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2393, column 1