Fangshan

From Mandarin 方山.

Fangshan

1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fangshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1203, columns 2, 3

From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 枋山 (Fāngshān).

Fangshan

1. A rural township in Pingtung, southern Taiwan.
   • 2000, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific‎, number 3739-3751, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

     The military exercise, code named “Lien Hsing”, was held at Pingtung County's Fangshan township, involving all three branches of the ROC Armed Forces.

   • 2017, “President Tsai”, in Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan)‎, archived from the original on June 13, 2017:

     Born in 1956 in Taipei City, Tsai Ing-wen traces her family roots to Fangshan Township of Pingtung County in southern Taiwan.

   • [2019 December 8, “Tien Ma’s Cebu serves delectable Taiwanese cuisine”, in MyCebu.ph: Re/Discover Cebu‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2020‎:

     They follow the recipe of Tien Liyuan, who was born in 1932 the Fang-shan township of Taiwan’s P’ing-tung county.]

   • 2020 November 17, Tai-Sheng Su; Chi-Chun Wu; Ling-Wei Chang, “Integration of audio surveillance on a queen bee rearing and breeding management system”, in Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences‎, volume 42, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     For this research, we worked with Chen’s Honey of Fangshan Township, Pingtung County, using Eclipse software and Java syntax combined with Access database to develop integrated audio surveillance on a queen bee rearing and breeding management system,[...]

   • 2021 September 5, Davidson, Helen, “Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwan village overcame Delta”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 05 September 2021:

     The hometown of Taiwan’s president, Fangshan’s borders encompass a long stretch of coast and four villages home to around 5,500 people, sandwiched between mountains and oceans. Quiet and picturesque, it’s left off most tourist trails, which instead focus on Kenting national park to the south. […]
     In June, midway through Taiwan’s worst Covid outbreak of the pandemic with thousands of cases of the Alpha strain, authorities in the southern county of Pingtung detected a rush of cases in Fangshan, none of which appeared connected.
     Fangshan had much in its favour – a low-density rural population with an outdoor lifestyle, and high community compliance. But it also had a lot against it. Fangshan’s health system is listed as “insufficiently resourced”, 20% of the population is over 65, and there were no protocols in place for being Delta ground zero. Almost nobody was vaccinated.

   • 2022 July 29, “Leaflets, broadcasts deployed as part of Han Kuang drills”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 July 2022, Taiwan News, page 2‎:

     In other Han Kuang drills yesterday, the 99th Marine Brigade held a joint landing operation at a beach in Pingtung County’s Fangshan Township (枋山).

From Mandarin 房山 (Fángshān).

Fangshan

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 2:

     The hsien consist of Ch'ang-p'ing with the Ming tombs north of the city, Fang-shan where the remains of Peking Man were found southwest of the city, Ta-hsing, T'ung and Shun-yi.]

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fangshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1203, column 2