Meanings
Nankang1
- A district of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, formerly a county.
Nankang district is in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. The industrial economy of Nankang has continued to grow.
2018 August 14, “People’s Government of Ganzhou Nankang Builds Up Furniture Industry in China with SAP Ariba”, in AP News; Business Wire, archived from the original on 11 Oct 20224 more examples
This was a great spiritual blessing to him and he returned a different man. He is now out with five others at this work making his centre at Nankang.
1921 February, C. A. Bunting, “From House to House in South Kiangsi”, in China's Millions, volume XXIX, number 1, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 26, column 1The Communists now divided into two groups which crossed the Hsinfeng River by the Wangmu and Kupo ferries respectively. One group struck north-west, crossed the Chang River between Nankang and Tayu and cut across the Kanchou-Nanhsiung road to occupy Chengkuo, north of Jenhua in Kwangtung province, on November 5.
1971, Dick Wilson, “Breaking Out of the Circle”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76Going south by highway from Kanchow, the seat of the Kanchow prefecture, we first passed through Nankang county.
Travels in China, 1966-71
1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 276Hundreds of Chinese furniture makers overturned police cars and blocked roads in the southeastern city of Nankang on Monday, to protest a government plan to raise taxes on an industry already suffering from a decline in demand from export markets.
2009 June 15, Yu Le, “Furniture makers protest higher taxes in east China”, in Jeremy Laurence, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 May 2021, Latest Crisis
Nankang2
- alternativeAlternative form of Nangang (Taiwan)
Tea growers from Taipei's Mucha and Nankang districts have entered their best produce for the annual tea contest.
Free China Weekly
1983 November 6, “Annual Tea Contest”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 44, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45 more examples
The Academia Sinica (Nankang, Taiwan) has not made available for research the Nanking government's diplomatic papers, but it has a valuable collection of documents for the pre-1927 period which are available.
1965, Akira Iriye, “Bibliography”, in After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East 1921-1931 (Harvard East Asian Series), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 337There is an^([sic]) unique pattern of herb exclusion by the Miscanthus stands, which occupies a large area in the mountains, particularly in Nankang, suburb of Taipei.
1974 January [1973], Chang-Hung Chou, Yea-Tzer Chung, “The Allelopathic Potential of Miscanthus Floridulus”, in Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, volume 15, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14The Government's most ambitious plan is to create a software industry almost from scratch. Encouraged by the success of a technology park in Hsinchu, near Taipei, planners are investing millions of dollars in a software park in Nankang, also near Taipei, to open in about three years.
1992 October 25, Michael Stroud, “A Shakeout Looms for Taiwan's Computer Companies”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022, BusinessNankang Tea Park (nángǎng guānguāng cháyuán) 南港觀光茶園 Similar to Mucha Tea Park, the tea park in the Nankang District is less developed but still very interesting. There are a number of hiking trails here winding through the forested hillsides, plus the area is dotted with small temples.
1994 July, Robert Storey, “Taipei”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 147, column 1Over the next year, a software park will be set up in a suburb of Taipei, in Nankang, where officials hope it will be able to attract American-trained software engineers.
1994 July 19, Edward A. Gargan, “High-Tech Taiwanese Come Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015
Origin
Nankang · proper noun
From Mandarin 南港 (Nángǎng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-kang³.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 南康
- 南康 (Nánkāng)district
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