Pingtung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pǐngʹdo͞ongʹ
Forms: form: P'ing-tung
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Ping Tung
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Pingdong
Etymology: c. 1940s, from Wade–Giles romanization of Chinese 屏東 (Píngdōng) Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tung¹.
Senses: examples: text: Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They haven't run a mile, and they are rotten with rust.
ref: 1953 February 9, Harold Lavine, “Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back”, in Newsweek, volume XLI, number 6, page 33:
text: Following article was published in Central News Agency's English Bulletin of October 28, 1947:
"President of the Executive Yuan, Chang Chun, returned to the capital at 2:50 this afternoon from Taiwan, after having taken off from Pingtung, Taiwan at 10:40 in the morning.
ref: 1972, The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State (Foreign Relations of the United States 1947), volume 7, numbers 894A.00/11-447, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 468:
text: The Taiwan Provincial Government has decided to spend US$6.4 million in three years starting this fiscal year to build a tourist recreation park near Fuku Bay in Pingtung county in Southern Taiwan.
ref: 1983 January 30, “Aboriginal cultural park”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 5, Taipei, page 2:
text: Villagers and tourists watch as a wooden boat is engulfed by flames during a traditional ceremony in Pingtung county, Taiwan, yesterday to celebrate the end of the eight-day Donggang Wang Ye festival.
ref: 2009 October 18, “Fire sail in Taiwan”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2023:
text: "This is really a genuine Paiwan outfit?" I asked.
"Absolutely," said Jenny. "The gods smile upon anyone who wears this. That's why it feels so uncomfortable. They feel your suffering and your sacrifice."
"It hurts, all right," said Nancy.
"It's painful to look at, too!" I said. Nancy slapped my shoulder.
"It's the real thing," said the girl with the innocent face. "I'm from Pingtung. My grandmother was part Paiwan."
ref: 2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 207:
text: A family walked through floodwaters in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan on Saturday, as Typhoon Nesat drenched the island.
ref: 2017 July 31, Russell Goldman, “On Heels of Typhoon Nesat, a Second Storm Hits Taiwan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2017, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county in southern Taiwan.
examples: text: Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control.
ref: 1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: Ou Yang Li-hsing, deputy head of the military-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, was in the southern city of Pingtung on a work trip.
ref: 2022 August 6, “Taiwan says China's military drills a 'possible simulated attack'”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2022:
glosses: A city in and the administrative seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan.