Liukuei

alternative also Liu-kuei

1. alternativeAlternative form of Liouguei.

   Taiwanese soldiers march on their way to Liukuei, Kaohsiung county, Taiwan, Thursday, August 13, 2009.

   2009 August 9, “Typhoon slams Taiwan, China, Japan”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021

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   During a visit to an orphanage at Liukuei in Kaohsiung, President Chiang Ching-kuo befriended a little girl born without arms. He promised to provide four-year-old Yang En-tien with a pair of artificial limbs.

   Free China Weekly

   1978 June 4, “President Chiang warns interests of ROC and U.S. inseparable”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XIX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3

   The Meinung, Kaoshu, Shalin, and Liukuei Hakka together comprised the army's "Right Unit," and it alone boasted some 3,200 fighting men.

   1983, Burton Pasternak, “Lungtu Before the Japanese”, in Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese district, 1895-1946, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20

   Stop in upper Liukuei for a look at the large Tienhou temple, then roll down into the main part of town across the river. From Liukuei, the route winds through hilly forested areas along a very rural back road.

   1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, page 107

   Liukuei, or Six Turtles, is a lovely spot northeast of Kaohsiung. The town occupies a valley, walled in by high mountains, wih a whitewater river rushing by. The scenery is even better than in Santimen. Camping hiking and rafting along the Laonung River are popular activities.

   1998, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274, column 2

   In Tainan people used to speak of the Central, South, and North Roads, which split off eastward from Hsinhua, Kuanmiao and Tsochen villages, linking the former Taiwan Prefecture (now Tainan) with the Liukuei region.[…] Along the road there are also many settlements of Aborigines (forced up here by Chinese immigrants) and Hakkas. Liukuei was a border area where the[…]

   Sinorama

   2003, 光華 [Sinorama], volume 28, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, columns 1, 3