Zhongli
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 中壢／中坜 (Zhōnglì).
Pronunciation
- enPR: jo͝ongʹlēʹ
Proper noun
Zhongli
- A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.
- 1982, Stevan Harrell, “Ploughshare in the Socioeconomic System”, in 犁舌尾 [Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
- In general, we can see Ploughshare as part of a local system, which includes all the communities for whom the basic-level market, and later administrative center, has been the nearby town of Sanxia. This local system is, in turn, part of a regional system, including all of the Chinese-inhabited parts of Taiwan from Taoyan and Zhongli in the south to Jilong in the north, with its market and administrative center at the twin cities of Megjia and Dadaocheng, which later became Taibei.
- 1984, Tong B. Tang, “Science and Technology in Taiwan”, in Science and Technology in China, London: Longman, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 209:
- The Zhongyuan Institute of Science and Engineering is located at Zhongli, a town midway between Taibei and Xinzhu. […]
National Central University, also at Zhongli, has departments in atmospheric physics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, mathematics, and physics.
- 2022 January 12, Keoni Everington, “3 Union Bank clerks test positive for COVID in northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 12 January 2022, Society:
- On Wednesday, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) announced that three clerks working at a Union Bank branch in Taoyuan City's Zhongli District had tested positive for COVID. The three had been listed as contacts of case No. 17,472, a residential service worker.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhongli.
Synonyms
Translations
city in Taiwan