Xuejia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 學甲 (Xuéjiǎ).
Senses: examples: text: Xuejia Township in Tainan received quite a lot of attention during the 2012 campaign, which might be expected to lead to a greater departure from 2008 baselines especially if candidates’ personal qualities or campaign tactics mattered in the elections. Under the early harvest provisions in ECFA, a Chinese group contracted to buy large amounts of milkfish from around 100 fish farmers in Xuejia. Xuejia, even more than the rest of the surrounding Tainan County, has historically voted overwhelmingly in favor of the green camp. For example, in 2008 Hsieh won a whopping 65.2 percent in Xuejia. Many observers saw the contract to purchase milkfish as an experiment in trying to create a pro-KMT constituency in the heart of the DPP’s strongest area by channeling the concrete benefits of economic integration directly to them. If this tactic was successful, we should expect the KMT vote to be significantly higher in Xuejia than in similar areas.
ref: 2014, N.F. Batto, “Continuity in the 2012 elections”, in Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jacques deLisle, editors, Political Changes in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou: Partisan conflict, policy choices, external constraints and security challenges (The Routledge Research on Taiwan Series), number 12, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 26–27:
text: The Agriculture and Food Agency said Saturday that it has tracked down the rice grown in fields contaminated by slag dumped by a waste treatment company and that the rice harvested from the farmland beside a river in Tainan's Xuejia District has not made its way into the market.
ref: 2015 August 15, “Rice grown on polluted fields has not entered market: agency”, in Focus Taiwan, sourced from Taipei (CNA), archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022, Society:
text: Even though the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have signed 18 economic agreements since 2008, including the ECFA, most Taiwanese remain skeptical over the normalization of political relations. The large contracted purchase from the Mainland side of agricultural products from Southern Taiwan did not win local support for the KMT or for unification. For example, Xuejia District in Tainan, the biggest location of Taiwan’s local Shimu fish farms, did not show any change of residents’ party preference for the DPP or of their support for the independence platform after the lucrative deals with the Mainland buyers went through.
ref: 2016, Tse-Kang Leng, “The Taipei–Beijing–Washington Triangle: The Taiwanese Aspects”, in Brantly Womack, Yufan Hao, editors, Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.; University of Macau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
text: The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.
ref: 2016, Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds?: On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, editors, The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 159–160:
text: A PX Mart customer spent NT$49 (US$1.48) and won the NT$10 million Special Prize in the January-February Taiwan receipt lottery.
The lucky customer bought a pudding at a PX Mart on Huazong Road in Tainan's Xuejia District, per CNA.
ref: 2025 March 25, Keoni Everington, “PX Mart customer buys NT$49 pudding, wins NT$10 million Taiwan receipt lottery”, in Taiwan News, sourced from TAIPEI (Taiwan News), archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025, Society:
glosses: Alternative form of Syuejia.