Daxi

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1. A district of Taoyuan, Taiwan.

   Now, busloads of Chinese tourists come every week to visit Chiang’s tomb, nestled between two red and blue Taiwanese flags in the small town of Daxi, an hour’s drive south of Taipei.

   2012 August 30, Sarah Mishkin, “Chinese tourists boost Taiwan’s economy”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2012, Asia

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   At Cihu, near the town of Daxi, 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is "temporary," as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China.

   2011, Phil Macdonald, Taiwan, 3rd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122

   Taoyuan Daxi, a city located on the border between the Xueshan mountain range and the plains in northern Taiwan and along the banks of the Dahan River, has been one of the major manufacturing towns of the traditional furniture industry in northern Taiwan for over a century.

   2022, Tien-Li Chen, Yung-Cheng Chen, “Participatory Curation and the Construction of Its Application Models in Exhibitions of Traditional Furniture Industry: A Case Study of Daxi, Taoyuan, Taiwan”, in Pei-Luen Patrick Rau, editor, Cross-Cultural Design. Product and Service Design, Mobility and Automotive Design, Cities, Urban Areas, and Intelligent Environments Design (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), volume 13314, Cham: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2026, page 36

   Synonyms: Dakekan, Taikokan

2. An urban village in Toucheng, Yilan County, Taiwan.

   Lin Tien-ming (林天明), a resident of Daxi Village in Toucheng Township, put it up for sale online.

   2024 September 25, Staff writer, with CNA, “Yilan fisherman releases rare sea snail per deal with buyer”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2026, Taiwan News, page 3

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   In terms of the sovereignty issue, the ROC government asserts that the Diaoyutai Islands are an inherent part of the territory of the ROC that fall under the administrative jurisdiction of Daxi Village in Toucheng Township, Yilan County, Taiwan.

   2019, Kuan-Hsiung Wang, “Current International Legal Issues: Taiwan”, in Seokwoo Lee, Hee Eun Lee, editors, Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 23 (2017), Leiden; Boston: Brill | Nijhoff, →DOI, →ISBN, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2023, page 66

   Daxi is a long, skinny village that stretches to either side of the wide river mouth that gives the settlement its name – from near the channel of the relatively large harbour (relative in comparison to the previous ports on this trip), to the elementary school beyond the train station.

   2021 January 21, “Tamsui-Kavalan Trails: Dali to Yilan (淡蘭古道北路：大里/外澳/頭城/礁溪/宜蘭)”, in Taiwan Trails and Tales, archived from the original on 17 May 2022