Pan-ch'iao

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

Pan-ch'iao

1. Alternative form of Banqiao
   • 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History‎, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83:

     It is worth noting that in some of these highly productive rice villages the two major landlord families of North Taiwan, the Lin of Pan-ch’iao and the Cheng of Hsin-chu, were among the largest holders.

   • 1991, Lai, Tse-han; Ramon H. Myers; Wei Wou, “The Uprising”, in A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947‎, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:

     In Pan-ch’iao of Taiwan county, people gathered at the railway station on the morning of February 28 and began beating Mainlanders or rounding them up and assembling them in one place.

   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:

     The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pan-ch'iao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2355, column 2
• “Pan-ch'iao, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.