# P'ing-tung
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: pǐngʹdo͞ongʹ

### Proper noun

P'ing-tung
* Alternative form of Pingtung
** 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus‎, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4:The hilly, mixed crop and forest land produces tea and citronella in the north and bananas and pineapples in the central and southern parts of the island. In the P'ing-tung section of this region some rice is grown, and also bananas, sweet potatoes, soy beans, jute, and millet, but the main crop is sisal.
** 1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2:P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located nearby. It serves as the seat of the P'ing-tung hsien (country) government.
** 1979, “Baseball”, in The 1979 Compton Yearbook‎, F. E. Compton, page 43:In the original series, played at Williamsport, Pa., Taiwan won its seventh world championship in ten years. A team from P'ing-tung, a small village in southern Taiwan, beat the U.S. West champs, the San Ramon Valley Little Leaguers of Danville, Calif., 11-1 in the final game.
** 1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945‎, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:Before beginning his more recent work in Chung-she, Pasternak devoted a year to a study of Ta-t’ieh, a Hakka-speaking community located at the southern end of the coastal plain, 15 miles south of P’ing-tung City (see Map 25.1).
** 1999, Masaaki Yamada, Japanese Immigrant Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon: A Case Study of Sustainable Rural Development in the Tropics‎, →OCLC, page 174:In 1933, he resigned as Castanhal's manager due to his advancing age and disease, and returned to Japan. However, his passion for rice soon led him to a new farm at P'ing-tung, Taiwan, and he eventually died in 1939 at his son's rice plantation in Webster, Texas.
** 2002 February 11, Richard Higgs, “Kemflo International Co. expanding”, in Plastics News‎, archived from the original on 2020-10-23‎:Privately held Kemflo International Co. Ltd. operates a 432,000-square-foot molding, tooling and assembly plant in P'ing-tung, Taiwan. […] The company now has 70 Taiwanese-made presses in P'ing-tung, and it has annual sales of $35 million.
** 2006, John F. Wukovits, Tobey Maguire‎, Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46:Ang Lee, who directed Tobey Maguire in 1997's The Ice Storm as well as in 1999's Ride with the Devil, has built an admirable résumé. Born in 1954 in P'ing-tung, Taiwan, Lee attended the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 before coming to the United States.
** 2016 May 24, Amy Tikkanen, Kenneth Pletcher, “Tsai Ing-wen”, in Encyclopædia Britannica‎, archived from the original on 15 April 2017‎:Tsai Ing-wen, (born August 31, 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan), educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan (2016– ).
** 2019 December 8, “Tien Ma’s Cebu serves delectable Taiwanese cuisine”, in MyCebu.ph: Re/Discover Cebu‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2020‎:They follow the recipe of Tien Liyuan, who was born in 1932 the Fang-shan township of Taiwan’s P’ing-tung county.
** 2020 February 10, Katherine Bourzac, “Climate change is destroying our coral reefs. Here’s how scientists plan to save them”, in Chemical & Engineering News‎, volume 98, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 August 2020:“If you protect the coral reef, you protect the ocean ecosystem,” says Chiahsin Lin, who works on coral preservation at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in P’ing-tung, Taiwan.
** 2022 March 18, Diana K, “10 of the Most Famous Taiwanese”, in Discover Walks Blog‎, History and Facts:Born in 1956, Fang-shan township, P’ing-tung county, Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen is an educator and politician who was the first female president of Taiwan.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:P'ing-tung.

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### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “P'ing-tung”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2442, column 1
* P'ing-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica