# Juifang
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 瑞芳 (Ruìfāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Jui⁴-fang¹.

### Proper noun

Juifang
* Alternative form of Ruifang
** 1954, Arthur F. Raper, Han-sheng Chuan, Shao-hsing Chen, “Current Benchmarks for Urban and Rural Taiwan”, in Urban and Industrial Taiwan―Crowded and Resourceful‎, Taipei: Good Earth Press, →OCLC, page 336:One rural area, Jenai township, and one industrial locality, Juifang, showed population decreases. Jenai, a mountainous area, decreased in part because of the population movement of Aborigines to other areas.
** 1961 September 2, “9 Killed in Blast”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman‎, volume XC, number 269, Kingston, NY, page 16, column 2:Nine workers were killed and three seriously injured Friday in an explosion in a coal mine at Juifang in northeast Formosa.
** 1980 April 6, “Better living standards for industrial workers”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎, volume XXI, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:Late last month, 34 miners were trapped in a flooded pit at Juifang near Taipei, and the search for bodies is still continuing.
** 1984 July 11, “133 TAIWAN MINERS ARE TRAPPED BY FIRE DEEP INSIDE TUNNEL”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015‎:Prime Minister Yu Kuo-hwa went to the mine, near Juifang, to supervise rescue efforts. He was joined by the Economics and Interior Ministers.
** 2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides)‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:Not far south of Keelung is the small inland town of Juifang, the jumping-off point for one of northern Taiwan’s most picturesque getaways.
** 2015 August 6, “On July 26, 2015, a search & rescue mission for a climber at the Juifang Mountainous Area”, in National Airborne Service Corps [內政部空中勤務總隊全球資訊網]‎, archived from the original on 14 October 2022‎:At about 17 on July 26, he Airborne Service Corp, MOI received an emergency task inform from the Fire Agency of New Taipei City: “A climber went up the mountain from somewhere nearby Juifang district and carelessly fell over when climbing the 381 peak of Chienlungleng, Panping Mountain.
** 2015 November 24, Hsiao-tung Lai, Jake Chung, “Museum admission fees mulled”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 November 2016, Taiwan News, page 4‎:Citing the Gold Museum in New Taipei City’s Juifang District (瑞芳), Pai said that trash created by tourists has become a problem and that public restrooms are often not up to sanitary standards due to the large volume of people using them.
** 2016, Andrew Morris, “The Taiwan Republic of 1895 and the Failure of the Qing Modernizing Project”, in Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :Thus inspired, Wu helped give the Japanese their only real fight on June 1, but Juifang was also quickly taken, with losses of 130 men.
** 2022 April 18, Flor Wang, Worthy Shen, “Firemen remove 1.5-meter long snake from express train”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2022, Society‎:The snake, which appeared on the train when it passed through Juifang station in New Taipei, was captured by firemen from Yilan County after it stopped at Yilan Train Station at around 9:30 a.m., according to the TRA.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Juifang.

### Further reading

* Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Juifang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 888, column 1
* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Juifang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1465, column 1