Hua-lien

See also: Hualien

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 花蓮 (Huālián) Wade–Giles romanization: Hua¹-lien².

Proper noun

Hua-lien

  1. Alternative form of Hualien
    • 1983, Charles Sheffield, Man on Earth‎, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 104:
      East of the Chung-yang is narrow valley, created by a geological fault and running from Hua-lien to Tai-tung in the south.
    • 1993, Joseph R. Allen, “Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing: A Profile”, in Forbidden Games & Video Poems‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 11:
      I first met the mother of Yang Mu in Hua-lien, Taiwan, in 1978.
    • 2001, Robert Green, Taiwan‎, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 14:
      This is the least inhabited part of Taiwan, with the exception of two cities along the coast: Hua-lien, in the north, and T'ai-tung, in the south.
    • 2017, Sheng, Shing-yuan; Hsiao-chuan (Mandy) Liao, “Issues, Political Cleavages, and Party Competition”, in Christopher H. Achen; T. Y. Wang, editors, The Taiwan Voter‎, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:
      As for controversial public works, such as the highway between Su-ao and Hua-lien, he promised to respect the results of environmental reports.
    • 2017 October 11, Lin, Yi-yin, “PCT Hua-Lien Aboriginal Student Center Launches A Rebuilding Project Supported By ASPM”, in Peter Wolfe, transl., Taiwan Church News [台灣教會公報社]‎, archived from the original on 18 October 2021, Mission Services‎:
      Rev McCall remarked that missionary Robert Donnell McCall, his brother-in-law, loved the beautiful lands and the aboriginal people of eastern Taiwan so much that half of his ashes was bid to bury at the cemetery of Kuan-fu Presbyterian Church at Hua-lien after he retired and died at US.
    • 2018 February 4, Croft, Adrian, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Taiwan, no damage reported”, in Jason Neely; Mark Heinrich, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 December 2018, World News‎:
      A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck on Taiwan’s east coast about 17 km (10 miles) north-northeast of Hua-lien, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
    • 2020 April 6, Hsieh, Huei-Mei; Jyh-Ching Chou; Yu-Ming Ju, “Xylaria insolita and X. subescharoidea: two newly described species collected from a termite nesting site in Hua-lien, Taiwan”, in Botanical Studies‎, volume 61, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1 of 9:
      In 2010 we conducted a survey on Xylaria species at a backyard of a residence in Hua-lien located in eastern Taiwan, where a nesting site of O. formosanus had previously been inundated following a heavy rain, and numerous Xylaria stromata kept emerging from the nesting site after termite activities had ceased.
    • 2021 August 18, “The perfect summer drink with the Tokyo Olympics 2020 Ambassador Ocean Bomb Orange feat. Son Goku”, in Karman Foods‎, archived from the original on 26 September 2021‎:
      YHB Ocean Bomb harvests some of the purest drinking water in the world, while conserving land by extracting deep ocean water from Taiwan's Eastern Port Hua-lien.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hua-lien.

Translations
Hualien — see Hualien

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