Kuanshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 關山 (Guānshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuan¹-shan¹.
Senses: examples: text: The journey north from Taitung to Kuanshan is enchanting. The narrow gauge diesel train winds between hillsides covered with pineapple and sugar plantations.[…]At Kuanshan Pastor Lu is in charge of the Bible School for Bunun and Ami girls.
ref: 1962, Leslie Lyall, “Isle of Destiny (Formosa)”, in Urgent Harvest: Partnership with the Church in Asia, London: China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 198:
text: If you want a real challenge, you can climb Kuanshan (guānshān), not to be confused with the small city of Kuanshan near Taitung.
ref: 1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 280, column 2:
text: To the casual observer, the town of Kuanshan in eastern Taiwan appears to be in a perpetual state of slumber, much like many other small towns along Highway 9. But Kuanshan, with a population of about 10,000 residents and located forty-two kilometers north of Taitung City, has distinguished itself from its neighbors with a bike trail that opened five years ago. "Kuanshan used to be an obscure place, but now a lot of tourists are coming here to relax and cycle," says Peter Ai, vice president of a local resort that opened last year.
ref: 2002 November 1, “Cycling into the East”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
text: Kuanshan (Guanshan) 關山
POP 2000
Back on Hwy 9, the former logging community of Kuanshan (Guān Shān) features a riverside park (admission NT$50; 🕑7am-5.30pm) that draws in the weekend crowds with bike paths through yellow rice paddies and fields of colza and sugar cane.
ref: 2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Taroko National Park & the East Coast”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 183, column 2:
text: Kuanshan Township of Taitung County is surrounded by Chishang, Luye, Haiduan, and Yianping Townships, with a total population of 36,000. Situated at the entrance of the Southern Cross-Island Provincial Highway, the area is haunted with automobile accidents, and with hospitals so far away north and south, local residents tend to sit on their illnesses until critical. Hence the locals had always hoped for a hospital nearby that could deal with life-threatening emergencies while attending to the health of the communities.
Tzu Chi Foundation completed the hospital in Kuanshan Township in less than a year, but its former self, “Boai Hospital”, was faced with constant challenges and predicaments.[…]Five years went by and inauguration remained nowhere in sight, Hsu Jui-Kui, the mayor of Kuanshan at the time, seek help from the Foundation, pleading to Master Cheng Yen to take over the hospital, bringing the countless preventable tragedies that haunted the locals for decades to an end.[…]
A decade gone by, Kuanshan Tzu Chi Hospital has now 62 beds, 7 full-time attending physicians, and a total of 82 staff in 2010, and then 109 staff in 2016, including nurses, medical technicians, and administrative staff.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Kuanshan Tzu Chi Hospital”, in Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2017:
text: The CT273 steam locomotive summer tour along Taiwan's east coast was first launched in 2014 and has been a resounding hit every year since. The luxury train passes through Fulien near Hualien, Chihshang near Taitung, and Kuanshan near Taitung, according to a press release issued by the TRA.
ref: 2018 May 7, Renée Salmonsen, “TRA announces midsummer train special”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 07 May 2018, Travel & Cuisine:
text: Members of the Taitung County Fire Department’s Kuanshan Branch rescue an injured hiker in Taitung on Thursday.
ref: 2020 November 2, Hsin-po Huang, Dennis Xie, “Mountain rescue missions double from last year: MOI”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Guanshan.