Xinzhu

See also: Xīnzhú

English

Etymology

From Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新竹 (Xīnzhú)[1]

Proper noun

Xinzhu

  1. A subdistrict of Qingxiu district, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
    • 2009, Margaret Kelly, editor, China (Fodor's), 6th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 494:
      Although the restaurant's official address is in the back of the labyrinthine Xinzhu residential area, save yourself the hassle and take the street entrance just west of the northwest corner of Minzu Dadao and Chahuayuan Lu.
  2. Alternative form of Hsinchu (Taiwan)
    • 1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, 中国通史纲要 [An Outline History of China], Beijing: Foreign Language Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 473:
      Together with the Black Flag Army led by Liu Yongfu who now commanded the Taiwan garrison, they put up a defence at Xinzhu, Taizhong and Zhanghua.
    • 1982, Mackerras, Colin, Modern China: A Chronology from 1842 to the present, San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 173:
      [1894 April] 5 (2/30). Shao Youlian sends in a memorial announcing completion of work on the Taiwan railway from Taibei to Xinzhu.
    • 2006, Qunyang Sun, Larry D. Qiu, Jie Li, “The Pearl River Delta: A World Workshop”, in Kevin Honglin Zhang, editor, China as the World Factory, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
      The most obvious consequence of this trend is that in the middle of the 1990s, America’s Silicon Valley, which originates innovations in information products, and Taiwan’s Xinzhu, with a large-scale production base, established a direct link. Xinzhu has the capacity for synchronous large- scale production.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xinzhu.

Translations

References

  1. Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈) (2015), “Transliteration Tables”, in , Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, page 431: “Hanyu pinyin []
    Xinzhu”
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