TAINAN

or T'ai-nanboth: tīˈnänˈ, city (1994 pop. 706,811), W central Taiwan, on the Taiwan Strait. The fourth largest city of Taiwan, it has industries producing metals, textiles, machinery, processed foods, and handicrafts. It is also a center for the marketing and processing of sugarcane, rice, peanuts, and salt, and there is an important fishing industry. Settled in 1590, Tainan is the oldest city of Taiwan. It was taken over by the Dutch and used as their headquarters from 1624 to 1662. It then became the island's capital under Koxinga and his son. Called Taiwan or Taiwanfu, it remained the political center of the island until the transfer of government to Taipei in 1885, when the city was renamed Tainan. A cultural center, it has many temples, the shrine of Koxinga, and a modern college of engineering.

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books on: Tainan  - 243 results

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"Race" Panic and the Memory of Migration
Book by Meaghan Morris, Brett de Bary; Hong Kong University Press, 2001
Subjects: Acculturation, Emigration And Immigration--Social Aspects, Race
73 Tainan Changlaojiao zhongxue de jibenjin ji muji shiwan yuan, Taiwan minbao, No.113 (July 1926). 4 Shiritsu Tainan ch6r6ky6 ch0gaku zaidan h6jin kifu k6i, Shiritsu Tainan ch6r6ky6 chugakko yokai zasshi 4 (1927). S Mosei Lin...
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Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries
Book by Mike Jenks, Rod Burgess; Spon Press, 2000
Subjects: Cities And Towns--Growth, City Planning--Developing Countries, Sociology, Urban--Developing Countries, Sustainable Development--Developing Countries
The city of Tainan Tainan is located on the western plains of Taiwan. The first government was established in 1661, and Tainan is now recognised as the oldest city in Taiwan. Until the late nineteenth...
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Chinese Business History: Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future
Book by Robert Gardella, Jane K. Leonard, Andrea McElderry; M. E. Sharpe, 1998
Subjects: Business Enterprises--China--History, China--Commerce
...types of liaison units in Manchuria. The Tainan conglomerate in present-day Taiwan developed...seventeenth. into the twentieth centuries. The Tainan group started as a partnership, and its...direction for further development. The Tainan conglomerate is now one of the big ten...
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The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church
Book by Murray A. Rubinstein; M. E. Sharpe, 1991
Subjects: Protestant Churches--Taiwan--History--20th Century, Taiwan--Church History--20th Century
...Anniversary Volume , 5-7. The history of the Tainan church is covered at some length in an anniversary...by members of the church. See Evangelism In Tainan: A Fifty Year Commemoration Tainan, 1977 , 3-6. See also the individual histories...
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A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers
Book by Hsiao Li-Hung, Michelle Wu; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: Hsiao, Li-Hung--Translations Into English
...beginning to sag! How are you finding Tainan? Daxin Zhenguan counted the days. Her...around the corner, and she had been in Tainan for two years and four months already...suspected how attached she would become to Tainan's geography and landscape. She hadn...
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An Efficiency-Based Approach on Human Resource Management: A Case Study of Tainan County Fire Branches in Taiwan
Journal article by Chun-Hsiung Lan, Liang-Lun Chuang, Chi-Chung Chang; Public Personnel Management, Vol. 36, 2007
Subjects: Data envelopment analysis--Usage, Fire departments--Management, Fire-departments--Management, Human resource management--Case studies, Human resource management--Methods
...Human Resource Management: A Case Study of Tainan County Fire Branches in Taiwan. by Chun...fire branches by using 35 fire branches of Tainan County Fire Bureau as an example. Currently, the Tainan County Fire Bureau consists of office duty...
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Multilingual Theatre in Contemporary Taiwan
Journal article by John B. Weinstein; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 17, 2000
Subjects: Drama--Analysis, Identity--Literature, Language and languages in art--Analysis, Multilingualism--Literature
...only a semiprofessional company, her Tainan Jen Theatre Troupe (Tainanren jutuan...artistically and organizationally in the city of Tainan and throughout all of southern Taiwan...the place where she lives and writes, Tainan. As she says in the preface to the Phoenix...
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The Environmental Nightmare of the Economic Miracle: Land Abuse and Land Struggles in Taiwan
Journal article by Linda Gall Arrigo; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 26, 1994
Subjects: Asia
...cases of struggle over land and land rights in Tainan and elsewhere illustrate this. Even the fairest...mobilization of the political will for a vast cleanup. Tainan City and its Environs Tainan is located on the widest point of the alluvial...
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Emission of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Their Carcinogenic Potencies from Cooking Sources to the Urban Atmosphere
Journal article by Chun-The Li, Yuan-Chung Lin, Wen-Jhy Lee, Perng-Jy Tsai; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 111, 2003
...number of the given types of restaurant in Tainan, Taiwan (743, 88, 20, and 11 for...provided by the Transportation Bureau in Tainan, there were 842,939 motor vehicles...These results clearly suggest that in Tainan PAH emissions from cooking sources are...
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Employees' Perception of Organizational Change: The Mediating Effects of Stress Management Strategies
Journal article by Ming-Chu Yu; Public Personnel Management, Vol. 38, 2009
Subjects: Organizational change--Analysis, Strategic planning (Business)--Analysis, Stress management--Usage
...Administration, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan. (37) Mishra, A. K., Spreitzer...Yu, PhD 33 Sec. 2, Shu-Lin St., Tainan City, Taiwan 700 R.O.C. (886...management at the National University of Tainan, Taiwan. His teaching and research interests...
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Ictm Regional Committee-taiwan
Magazine article by Cheng Te-Yuan; Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music, October 2009
...annual meeting twice in November 2007 at Tainan and in December 2008 at Taipei. The...Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Tainan National University of the Arts on November 10-11, 2007. At the Tainan meeting, the members of the ICTM Taiwan...
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The Legacy of Shoki Coe
Magazine article by Ray Wheeler; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 26, April 2002
Subjects: Bible, Coe, Shoki, Theology, Theory
...English and Scripture at the boys school in Tainan that he himself had attended when his...Presbyterian Church in Taiwan voted to reopen the Tainan Theological College (closed in 1940 by...Winifred worked alongside Shoki at the Tainan Theological College as an adjunct instructor...
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Theological Education in South East Asia, 1957-2002
Magazine article by Choo Lak Yeow; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 28, January 2004
Subjects: Culture, Education, Religious organizations, Southeast Asia, Theology
...Sekolah Tinggi Teoloji, Jakarta, Indonesia; Taiwan Theological College and Seminary, Taipei; Tainan Theological College and Seminary, Tainan, Taiwan; and the Theology Division of the Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong...
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Seeking Today's Perspective from the Past
Magazine article by Munroe Scott; Canadian Speeches, Vol. 16, January 2003
Subjects: History--Moral and ethical aspects, History--Study and teaching, Politicians--Moral and ethical aspects, Politics--Moral and ethical aspects, Religious discrimination--Prevention
...village on Taiwans southwest coast, not far from the city of TAinan. Here the dominant sound is not the laughter of children or...skilled physician who could be making an excellent living in TAinan city but who is following his own conscience. Dr. Wang and...
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Ictm Regional Committee - Taiwan
Magazine article by Te-Yuan Cheng; Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music, April 2007
...College of Music Director of Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology Tainan National University of the Arts Taiwan Vice-Chair: Prof...Dr. Tsai, Tsung-Te Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology Tainan National University of the Arts Taiwan The representatives of...
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Potts Gets an Honour from Noodles City
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), November 23, 2008
...freeman of the little-known city of Tainan in Taiwan - the place where instant noodles...spread to the obscure Taiwanese city of Tainan, best known as the place where Momofuku...last show in Taiwan was in the town of Tainan. Here we hosted the Mayor of Tainan...
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TREATS OF THE EAST; Bright Streets, Exotic Beaches and Ancient Temples -- Taiwan Is Exhilarating
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 1, 2010
...few days in old colonial Taiwan. The first port of call is Tainan, where the Dutch established a toehold on the island from 1624...historic colonial past and high-tech manufacturing present, Tainan and Kaohsiung are like fascinating mini hong Kongs. Before...
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Blu Girls Meet Singapore in Taiwan Opener
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2007
Subjects: SEA Games--2005 AD
...Blu Girls play a double header in the first three days of the tournament that begins on Feb. 1 at the Tainan Municipal Softball Stadium in Tainan City, Taiwan. The Blu Girls will face Singapore in the opening before taking the fancied South Korea...
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Skipper Wins Pac-10 Honor
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 20, 2006
Subjects: University of Oregon
...woman roster for the World University Games that was announced Monday by USA Softball. The Games will be held July 15-23 in Tainan City, Taiwan. The World University team will play a scrimmage against the USA Softball womens national team on July 10 in...
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How Aromatherapy Oils 'Can Poison You'; Tiny Particles from Oils 'May Damage Liver and Kidneys'
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 22, 2011
Subjects: Aromatherapy, Liver diseases, Volatile organic compounds
...boosting the immune system and helping with sleep. But the scientists from the Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan, warn that the negative effects cannot be neglected. The study, published in the journal Environmental Engineering...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tainan  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Tainan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TAINAN or Tai-nan both: ti nan , city (1994...important fishing industry. Settled in 1590, Tainan is the oldest city of Taiwan. It was taken...Taipei in 1885, when the city was renamed Tainan. A cultural center, it has many temples...
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Taiwan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...addition to Taipei, other major cities include Kaohsiung , Tainan , Taichung , and Chilung . The overwhelming majority of the...beautiful. In 1624 the Dutch founded forts in the south at present Tainan, while the Spanish established bases in the north. The Dutch...
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Taipei
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...immigrants from Fujian prov. on the China mainland, Taipei began its modern development only after 1885, when it replaced Tainan as the capital of Taiwan prov. It continued to serve as a political center and underwent considerable enlargement and modernization...


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