T'ai-chung
See also: Taichung
English
    
    Etymology
    
From Mandarin 臺中/台中 (Táizhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-chung¹.
Proper noun
    
T'ai-chung
- Alternative spelling of Taichung
-  1970, Stanley Johnson, Life Without Birth, Little, Brown and Company, page 78:- The first real breakthrough seems to have come with the establishment of the Taiwan Population Studies Center in T'ai-chung in 1962.
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 T'ai-chung city is near the West coast of the island about one hundred and twenty miles south of Taipei.
 
- The first real breakthrough seems to have come with the establishment of the Taiwan Population Studies Center in T'ai-chung in 1962.
-  1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, “The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau”, in The Changing Geography of Asia, Routledge, →ISBN, page 192:- Research needs to be done on the feasibility of the proposed combining Tʻai-chung City and Tʻai-chung County to form a third directly administered city.
 
-  1998, Jack Lenor Larsen, Jack Lenor Larsen- A Weaver's Memoir, Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:- Our station was not dreary Taipei but T'ai-chung, to the south and so sunny as to be the film center. At the edge of town, our headquarters was a Japanese-style compound quite adequate for the six Americans living there.
 
-  2001, Lu Chi Fa, Becky White, “Working for Mr. Ching”, in Double Luck, Holiday House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 187:- My first civilian job after the military was as a waiter at Club 63, an American noncommissioned officer's club in Tʻai-chung.
 
-  2009, Daniel J. Hinkley, The Explorer's Garden, Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 287:- Botanists, in particular Aleck Yang from the National Museum of Natural Science in Tʻai-chung, have removed plants from the wild in an attempt to eradicate the pest and ultimately reestablish a healthy colony in the wild.
 
 
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Translations
    
Taichung — see Taichung
Further reading
    
- “T'ai-chung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “T'ai-chung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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