Fangshan

GEDONG, China -- There was no sign, but Gedong's teenagers knew the way. Down a dusty alley just off Jicui Park and a few minutes' walk from local schools, the curtained door beckoned. Inside, in a dingy back room off the kitchen, a clutch of adolescent boys crowded around six computers and stared at the images flickering on their screens. For the equivalent of 35 cents an hour, the youths were playing computer games in an underground Internet cafe, one of a half-dozen information-age speak-easies in this little farming and coal-mining town in Shanxi province 220 miles southwest of Beijing. For those unable to afford their own computers -- the vast majority here -- going online in a clandestine dive has become the only option; the local Communist Party leader banned Internet cafes nine months ago as a bad influence on minors. "If they dare to reopen, we might launch another campaign to shut them all down again," proclaimed Zhang Guobiao, party secretary for the surrounding Fangshan County.

2007 February 9, Edward Cody, “Despite a Ban, Chinese Youth Navigate to Internet Cafes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023

The military exercise, code named “Lien Hsing”, was held at Pingtung County's Fangshan township, involving all three branches of the ROC Armed Forces.

2000, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, numbers 3739-3751, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8

Born in 1956 in Taipei City, Tsai Ing-wen traces her family roots to Fangshan Township of Pingtung County in southern Taiwan.

2017, “President Tsai”, in Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan), archived from the original on 13 Jun 2017

For this research, we worked with Chen’s Honey of Fangshan Township, Pingtung County, using Eclipse software and Java syntax combined with Access database to develop integrated audio surveillance on a queen bee rearing and breeding management system,[...]

2020 November 17, Tai-Sheng Su, Chi-Chun Wu, Ling-Wei Chang, “Integration of audio surveillance on a queen bee rearing and breeding management system”, in Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, volume 42, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC

The hometown of Taiwan’s president, Fangshan’s borders encompass a long stretch of coast and four villages home to around 5,500 people, sandwiched between mountains and oceans. Quiet and picturesque, it’s left off most tourist trails, which instead focus on Kenting national park to the south.[…] In June, midway through Taiwan’s worst Covid outbreak of the pandemic with thousands of cases of the Alpha strain, authorities in the southern county of Pingtung detected a rush of cases in Fangshan, none of which appeared connected. Fangshan had much in its favour – a low-density rural population with an outdoor lifestyle, and high community compliance. But it also had a lot against it. Fangshan’s health system is listed as “insufficiently resourced”, 20% of the population is over 65, and there were no protocols in place for being Delta ground zero. Almost nobody was vaccinated.

2021 September 5, Helen Davidson, “Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwan village overcame Delta”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2021

In other Han Kuang drills yesterday, the 99th Marine Brigade held a joint landing operation at a beach in Pingtung County’s Fangshan Township (枋山).

2022 July 29, “Leaflets, broadcasts deployed as part of Han Kuang drills”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2022, Taiwan News, page 2

But Mr. Li, 39, a salesman, was skeptical when he set foot in the new public toilet at the corner of Fuqian Square in Fangshan, a district in southwest Beijing. “What was wrong with the old one?” he said. “The government has too much money and doesn’t know how to spend it.”

2015 December 16, Javier C. Hernández, “Wi-Fi, A.T.M.s and Turbo-Flush Toilets Highlight China’s New Public Restrooms”, in The New York Times (Sinosphere section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2015