Ciaotou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chyouʹtōʹ
Forms: form: Ch’iao-t’ou
form: Chiaotou
form: Qiaotou
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 橋頭 (Ciáotóu).
Senses: examples: text: The only Special Station public artwork that was commissioned from a Taiwanese artist, Chu Pang-hsiung, is installed at Ciaotou [Kio-A-Thau] Station, near the location of the now-defunct Ciaotou Sugar Refinery.
ref: 2011, Anru Lee, Perng-juh Peter Shyong, “Assessing (multi)culturalism through public art practices”, in Tak-Wing Ngo, Hong-zen Wang, editors, Politics of Difference in Taiwan, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:
text: Ciaotou Sugar Factory
(橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour.
ref: 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 256:
text: The jurisdiction area of Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office includes 26 districts in total.
ref: 2017 September 30, “Jurisdiction”, in 臺灣橋頭地方檢察署 [Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office], archived from the original on 24 Jul 2019:
english: Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office
translation: Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office
text: He promised to create a point of contact to attract businesses and investments, open a science park in Ciaotou District (橋頭), connect Kaohsiung and Tainan via a “technological corridor,” and bring in more than NT$600 billion (US$19.4 billion) in economic output.
ref: 2018 November 20, Ko Yu-hao, Sherry Hsiao, Jonathan Chin, “Kaohsiung mayoral rivals cross swords in debate”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2018:
text: Ciaotou Sugar Refinery was built during Japanese colonial rule period and was the first modern sugar refinery in Taiwan. It was established by the Japanese company Mitsui Corporation, with operations commencing in 1902. At the height of its yearly production it contributed 60,000 metric tons of sugar. Ciaotou became a prosperous industrial area because of it. The once flourishing sugar refinery closed in 1999, yet it will always be an important part Ciaotou 's sweet history.
ref: 2018, “Ciaotou Sugar Refinery”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung, number 6, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2020:
text: His suggestion was soon realized when Taiwan Sugar began operating its first ‘newstyle’ sugar factory in Kyōshitō (present-day Ciaotou District, Kaohsiung City: see Map 1), in January 1902.
ref: 2019, Mariko Iijima, “Sugar Islands in the Pacific in the Early Twentieth Century: Taiwan as a Protégé of Hawai'i”, in Historische Anthropologie, volume 27, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 369:
text: The Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office and Kaohsiung police both responded Tuesday that no relevant information has been received so far from the mayor's office.
. . .
Wang Po-tun (王柏敦), an official with the Ciaotou Prosecutors Office, said that if Han was to file a charge on offences against privacy, he would have to do it personally.
ref: 2019 August 20, Chen Chi-fong, Wen Kuei-hsiang, Wang Shu-fen, Ko Lin, “Kaohsiung mayor voices frustration, claims car wired with tracker”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2020:
text: Tsai says that 10 years ago, when Kaohsiung County became part of the city, an AmCham Kaohsiung white paper suggested that the government create an industry centered on the long-term care of senior citizens to take advantage of Kaohsiung’s warm climate, lower living costs, and convenient transportation. But the city government has preferred to focus on high-tech industry, such as developing a new science park in the Ciaotou district.
ref: 2020 April 22, Louise Watt, “Kaohsiung Seeks a Change of Fortune”, in American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2020:
text: An investigation into corruption involving CPC's refinery division was launched after the Ministry of Justice's Agency Against Corruption (AAC) received a tip-off from an anonymous whistleblower, accusing Hsu of taking bribes from businesses.
The AAC reported the case to Kaohsiung City's Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office, which set up a special taskforce to look into Hsu.[...]
At 4 a.m. Thursday, the Taiwan Ciaotou District Court issued an order to detain both Hsu and Liu, with the former held incommunicado.
ref: 2022 January 27, Tsai Meng-yu, Tseng yi-ning, Tseng Chih-yi, James Lo, “Department head at state-run CPC detained for corruption”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022:
text: The company began construction on a recycled water plant in Kaohsiung Ciaotou District in 2023, which is expected to supply 35,000 tonnes of water daily to TSMC starting next year.
ref: 2025 March 14, Carol Yang, “Continental Development Corporation to launch 5 major housing projects in Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2025, Business:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.