# Hua-lien
## English
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Hua-lien
* Alternative form of Hualien (city)
** 1968, N. S. G., “FORMOSA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 9, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 630, column 1:The government-operated railway system, also developed originally by the Japanese, extends for 608 mi. (979 km.), chiefly on the western plain; most trackage is Cape-gauge (three feet six inches), but the 109-mi. (176 km.) east-coast line between T'ai-tung and Hua-lien is two feet six inches gauge.
** 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.
** 1991, Tse-han Lai, 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 131:On March 2, in Hua-lien city on the east coast, the district chief, Chang Wen-ch’eng, notified all organ heads and local leaders to meet at 2:00 P.M. to discuss how to prevent an uprising.
** 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, Shing-yuan Sheng, 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, Yi-yin Lin, “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, Adrian Croft, “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, Huei-Mei Hsieh, 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.
** 2023 July 11, JL, “Hualien Fire Department: Don't call 119 to chat”, in International Community Radio Taipei‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-13, Realtime News‎:The Hua-lien Fire Department is urging people not to call the emergency number 119 for reasons other than asking for help or disasters.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hua-lien.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Hua-lien, in Encyclopædia Britannica
* Hua-lien, Hua Lien, Hua-Lien at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* “Hua-lien”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 326, column 2
* Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwalien, Hua-lien, or Hua-lien-kang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 1