Panchiao

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A form of Banqiao — A district, the administrative seat of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Banqiao.

    The Lin Gardens (☏ 9653061) are in the suburb of Panchiao (bǎnqiáo), south-west of Taipei proper.

    1994 July, Robert Storey, “North Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177, column 2
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    Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling.

    1965, “Lutheranism in Asia”, in Julius Bodensieck, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church, volume I, Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125, column 1

    Secondly, figure the percentage of the area's total numbers represented by each category in each township. For example, we found that the respective total numbers of the (A), (B), (C), and (D)⁸ farm households for the Panchiao and Shulin townships in the high-economic land-class area of the Taipei-Yilan region were 621 and 377; 483 and 571; 727 and 401; 359 and 412, respectively and that the total numbers of the whole area were 998, 1054, 1128, and 771, respectively.⁹ The two townships' percentages in the Panchiao-Shulin area's total numbers of the various farm households were 62.2 and 37.8; 45.7 and 54.3; 64.4 and 35.6; 41.3 and 58.7, respectively.¹⁰

    1970, Martin M. C. Yang 楊懋春, Socio-Economic Results of Land Reform in Taiwan, Honolulu: East–West Center Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 96–97

    Some 300 schoolchildren, led by their teacher, jogged to Taipei from suburban Panchiao to take part in the ceremony, while a group of citizens from the coastal spa resort of Chiaohsi in Ilan county arrived aboard chartered buses.

    1980 January 6, “ROC GREETS SELF-RELIANT YEAR”, in Free China Weekly, volume 21, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1

    A leaky natural gas pipeline caused a spectacular fire that engulfed a district of Taipei, injuring 12 people and destroying 54 homes. Police said the gas flow wasn’t cut until more than an hour after the initial explosions Thursday in the commercial and residential area in suburban Panchiao.

    1995 February 3, “Pipeline Fire Injures 12, Destroys 54 Homes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2022

    Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.

    2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26

Origin

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 板橋 (Bǎnqiáo) Wade-Giles romanization: Pan³-chʻiao².

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APA

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