Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Pingtung.
Before beginning his more recent work in Chung-she, Pasternak devoted a year to a study of Ta-t’ieh, a Hakka-speaking community located at the southern end of the coastal plain, 15 miles south of P’ing-tung City (see Map 25.1).
1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3185 more examples
The hilly, mixed crop and forest land produces tea and citronella in the north and bananas and pineapples in the central and southern parts of the island. In the P'ing-tung section of this region some rice is grown, and also bananas, sweet potatoes, soy beans, jute, and millet, but the main crop is sisal.
1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located nearby. It serves as the seat of the P'ing-tung hsien (country) government.
1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2In the original series, played at Williamsport, Pa., Taiwan won its seventh world championship in ten years. A team from P'ing-tung, a small village in southern Taiwan, beat the U.S. West champs, the San Ramon Valley Little Leaguers of Danville, Calif., 11-1 in the final game.
1979, “Baseball”, in The 1979 Compton Yearbook, F. E. Compton, page 43In 1933, he resigned as Castanhal's manager due to his advancing age and disease, and returned to Japan. However, his passion for rice soon led him to a new farm at P'ing-tung, Taiwan, and he eventually died in 1939 at his son's rice plantation in Webster, Texas.
1999, Masaaki Yamada, Japanese Immigrant Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study of Sustainable Rural Development in the Tropics, →OCLC, page 174Privately held Kemflo International Co. Ltd. operates a 432,000-square-foot molding, tooling and assembly plant in P'ing-tung, Taiwan.[…] The company now has 70 Taiwanese-made presses in P'ing-tung, and it has annual sales of $35 million.
2002 February 11, Richard Higgs, “Kemflo International Co. expanding”, in Plastics News, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2020
Origin
- Mandarin屏東
- EnglishP'ing-tung
From Mandarin 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.
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