T'ai-wan

From Mandarin 臺灣／台灣 (Táiwān) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-wan¹.[1][2]

T'ai-wan

1. Alternative form of Taiwan
   • 1876, Emil Bretschneider, “Chinese Intercourse with the Countries of Central and Western Asia in the Fifteenth Century”, in China Review‎, volume 4, number 6, page 386:

     The Chinese now call Formosa 臺灣 Tʻai-wan which is properly the name of the capital of the island, situated on the western coast. But Tʻai-wan is mentioned also in the Ming-shi as a place of Ki-lung-shan, where about A.D. 1620 the red-haired barbarians (the Dutch) settled.

   • 1904, DeGroot, J. J. M., Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China‎, volume II, Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, pages 343-344:

     Consternation and despair seized the district, and great numbers of sectaries and their families flocked together for the defence of their hearths and homes. Ch'ai Ta-ki abandoned Chang-hwa, and retired into T'ai-wan 臺灣, the chief city of the island....The rapid success of the insurgents was party owing to the circumstance that the Formosa cities in those days were unwalled, and merely surrounded by fences of living bamboo, no masonry being proof against the earthquakes frequently occurring in the island. T'ai-wan, likewise protected by a bamboo fence, was harried both from the north and the south, but successfully defended by Ch'ai Ta-ki...He called back the population, but with these many insurgents swarmed in, surprised the town again on the 10th of the third month (Apr. 27), and drove Hoh Chwang-yiu back to T'ai-wan.

   • 1958, “China, Agriculture and Food Supply”, in C. K. Leung; Norton Ginsburg, editor, The Pattern of Asia‎, Edgewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1961, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:

     The hilly topography restricts the cultivated area mainly to the valleys of the Hsi River and of its tributaries in Kuang-hsi and Kuang-tung and the lowlands of T'ai-wan and Hai-nan. Western T'ai-wan and the Hsi River delta have extremely high population densities.

   • 1980, C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, editor, China: Urbanization and National Development‎, page 267:

     The Beijing Review, 46, November 16, 1979, p. 17, reported a population of 975 million including T'ai-wan and describes programs designed to attain zero population growth by the year 2000.

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