Jilong

alternative Chi-lung

1. Synonym of Keelung.

   We began to think of moving because of the low salary but also because we were getting very tired of living in Jilong. The weather there is simply terrible: it rains constantly, and the wind blows.

   1987, Hill Gates, “Folk Religions, Old and New”, in Chinese Working-Class Lives, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 219

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   Heavy industry developed in the 1970s at Taiwan's other main cities: Jilong, Taizhong, and Gaoxiung^([sic – meaning Gaoxiong]). Jilong, 25 km. east of Taipei, is located near Taiwan's main coal deposit, which has an annual yield of about 2.5 million metric tons.

   1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, Encyclopedia of China Today, Eurasia Press, →ISBN, page 35

   The ROC made its own use out of individual refugees’ stories. As an “intellectual,” Zhang Shijie registered with ARCI for resettlement in Taiwan. On October 23, 1953, he arrived at Jilong (Keelung) Harbor in Taiwan with two to three hundred other refugees from the Rennie’s Mill camp.

   2015, Meredith Oyen, The Diplomacy of Migration : Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 176

   Synonyms: Keelung