Dakekan

The Shen Pao of February 10th says that the Formosan savages of Ta k’o k’an, alarmed by the progress of General Wu, have proffered their submission and given up the notorious chief Niu-ming-loa-wal, who was executed at the capital on January 17th.

[1890 March 26 [1890 March 25], “FROM THE ORIENT. Death of a Missionary Bishop–The Formosan Campaign.”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union, volume LXXIX, number 28 (12,117), Sacramento, sourced from San Francisco, page 1, column 7

The most important camphor center in North Taiwan was at Dakekan (later Daxi), which was reported to have over 20,000 camphor stills in 1870–Sanxia had about 150 (Wang 1976, p. 75).

犁舌尾

1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 21, 215

The main column, under the personal command of MajorGeneral Yamane, advanced, on the morning of the 22nd [July 1985] from Tohokam [Dakekan, now Daxi] to the vicinity of a village about five miles from Sankakeng.

1990 June, Stevan Harrell, “From Xiedou to Yijun, the Decline of Ethnicity in Northern Taiwan, 1885–1895”, in Late Imperial China, volume 11, number 1, Johns Hopkins University Press, →DOI, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2018, pages 99–127

Nakano Chūzō had wandered deep into the forests of Taiwan’s mountains when he unwittingly entered what was known as the barbarian settlement of Dakekan, where a group of indigenous Atayal people lived.

2019, Kirsten L. Ziomek, “Introduction”, in Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 418, Harvard University Asia Center, →DOI, →ISBN, →JSTOR, →LCCN, page 1

Nomination：Daxi was renamed ”Dagusian” by Atayal. It was also renamed “Dagukan” by immigrants of Zhangzhou. Then, it was nominated “Dakekan” because of Mr. Li Teng-Fang who was a successful candidate in the imperial examination. Finally, “Daxi” was the official name in 1920.[…] Geographical environments：During Daoguang and Guangxu regimes of Qing Dynasty, the Dahan river and Tamsui river were converged together, therefore many sailboats and junks could sail from Tamsui to Dakekan.

n.d., “Daxi District: The Garden City of Culture”, in Taoyuan City Government, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025, About Taoyuan