Changhua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈhwɑ/
enpr: jängʹhwäʹ
Forms: form: Chang-hua
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Changhwa
form: Chang-hwa
form: Jhanghua
form: Zhanghua
Etymology: From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 彰化 (Zhānghuà), Wade-Giles romanization: Chang¹-hua⁴.
Senses: examples: text: That is why Yeh Hui-chen goes contentedly every day to her family ranch in the Mt. Bank area of Changhua county in central Taiwan to pursue her chosen profession.[...]In the past, the inhabitants eked out a meager living by growing pineapples and plums, which had to be carried out on foot through the rugged mountain area on the border of Changhua and Nantou counties.
ref: 1979 February 18, “'Cowgirl' finds contentment, prosperity on the land”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: In Changhua County's Fenyuan village, I came across some old pineapple growers. The harvest was unexpectedly good this year, but the agricultural cooperative was unable to purchase their surplus.
ref: 2000, Chen Shui-Bian, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:
text: The president made the remarks during an inspection tour of the central county of Changhua where he visited a new-style touch fasteners manufacturing firm and an industrial park.
ref: 2003 June 18, “President Chen Inspects an Industrial Park in Changhua County”, in Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan):
text: Taiwan has confirmed new outbreaks of bird flu at two farms in Changhua County, and culled more than 13,000 chickens and ducks, the island's animal and plant health inspection and quarantine bureau said on Saturday.
ref: 2018 January 20, “Taiwan reports new bird flu cases”, in yan, editor, Xinhua News Agency:
glosses: A county in western Taiwan.
examples: text: As we were now going to have rougher travelling than we had had, we despatched a courier to Taiwanfu with our surplus baggage, and letters to inform the Consul of our plans. We went S.S.E. for 13 miles over a fertile plain, cultivated with sugar-cane, tobacco, ground-nut, sweet potatoes, &c., drawing gradually towards the range of hills on our left. At the head of the gorge, due east of the district town of Changhua, we were met by a party of thirty or forty tall, stalwart Pepohuans, armed with knives and match-locks, who were to be our bodyguard through the mountains, to protect us from the savages.
ref: 1877 March 12, Herbert J. Allen, Notes of a Journey through Formosa from Tamsui to Taiwanfu (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society), volume 21, page 261:
text: SIR: I have the honor to report that the governor of Formosa, Lin Ming-Chuan, has made a contract with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., for the supply by the latter of rails, rolling stock, and bridge for a narrow-gauge, light-weight railway of 80 miles in length.
The line is to be from Tamsui to Changhua, the future capital of the island. The only stream to bridge is the Taikia River. It will be spanned by a lattice girder bridge in two sections, of a joint length of 1,400 feet.
ref: 1888, Mr. Denby to Mr. Bayard (Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States for the Year 1887), number 179, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 224:
text: The attempts of the governor to raise revenue by increasing the land-tax five-fold resulted in an outbreak of determined opposition and culminated in actual insurrection in the latter part of the summer of 1888. The first rising took place at Pilam, a town on the southeast coast. The Chinese settlers there entered into an alliance with the neighboring savages, and, in spite of the dispatch of some 3,000 troops, appear to have successfully held their own. What the result would have been in the long run it is difficult to estimate, but the anti-land-tax movement having broken out in the district of Changhua, in the very center of the island, the authorities, it is believed, compromised the question at Pilam, so as to have their hands free to cope with the much more formidable state of affairs at Changhua.
ref: 1889 October 9, Pelham Warren, Commerce of Takao and Taiwanfoo (Reports from the Consuls of the United States), volume 32, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 201:
text: We gave our Changhua preacher's wife a gift when her second baby was born at Christmas time just because she is young and badly wants nice things for her infant girl.
ref: 1956 June 27, Charlotte A. Dunlap, “Women's Work”, in Southern Presbyterian Journal, volume 15, number 9, page 11:
text: Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa). His father was an accountant in a rice shop and a descendant of the three hundred Fukienese families who went to Taiwan with Koxinga, who led a rebellion there against the Manchus.
At the age of six Ts'ai Ch'ien entered primary school, studied Japanese, and graduated after eight years. He taught at the same school, in Changhua, for one year. In 1924 he came to Shanghai, financed partly by his father and partly by the Chinese Cultural Association of Taiwan. He attended Shanghai University, where Yü Yu-jen was president, in 1924-25.
ref: 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103:
text: Oncomelania hupensis formosana collected from the field at Changhua, Taiwan, were used throughout the shedding experiments. They were reared in either 13 cm clay saucers with mud mixture and water (WAGNER & CHI, 1959) or in 20 cm glass bowls.
ref: 1983, Lois Wong Chi, Robin Dodson, Fred Ung, “Emergence Pattern of Cercariae from Oncomelania hupensis formosana, Snail Host for Zoophilic Schistosomiasis japonicum”, in The Veliger, volume 25, number 3, page 194:
text: About three miles (5 km) south of Changhua, along County Route 137 in Huatan, the Taiwan Folk Village (30 Sanfen Rd., Wanya Village Huatan Township, tel (04) 787-0088, $$ closed Mon.) showcases traditional Taiwanese culture-and more.
ref: 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 212:
text: President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan campaigning in the city of Changhua on Tuesday.
ref: 2020 January 8, Steven Lee Myers, Chris Horton, “China Looms Over Taiwan’s Election, Giving a Boost to the Incumbent”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2020:
text: Taiwanese war planes are parked on a highway during an annual exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan's airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan.
ref: 2020 July 14, Frida Ghitis, “Can Taiwan survive a second Trump term?”, in Washington Post:
glosses: A city and the administrative seat in Changhua County, Taiwan.
Synonyms: alt: from Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī
word: Chiang-hoa
sense: from Japanese
word: Shoka