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  - 245 results

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A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947
Book by Tse-Han Lai, Ramon H. Myers, O. Wei; Stanford University, 1991
Subjects: Taiwan--History--February Twenty Eighth Incident, 1947
...Taichung , 124 ; Chia-i , 128 ; Tainan , 129 ; Kaohsiung and Neighboring...the island itself, just outside todays Tainan city. After routing Spanish settlements...their yamens in the walled cities of Tainan and Taipei. These officials, as well...
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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
...Taiwan, at sites such as Anping and Tainan, then further north in central Taiwan...impressive of these was the temple located in Tainan. 11 Ancestral and lineage halls were...a new mission station. They settled on Tainan in the southwestern part of the island...
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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
...Spatial Analysis of Urban Sustainability: Tainan City, Taiwan 321...Planning, National Chen Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan ROC Thomas A. Clark...Planning, National Chen Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan ROC Mike Jenks Professor...
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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
...eighteen and attending high school in Tainan, Second Aunt was alone and had decided...Great-Uncle, a doctor in the city of Tainan? No, that couldn't be, for Fifth Great-Uncle...Fifth GreatUncle had married a woman from Tainan and ran a medical clinic there, Grandfather...
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Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660-1990
Book by Charles Brewer Jones; University of Hawaii, 1999
Subjects: Buddhism--Taiwan--History, Religion And State--Taiwan
...installation of Fort Zeelandia in modern Tainan city , thus expelling the Dutch and putting...1743 states that the Haihui Temple in Tainan owned 50 jia of pastureland in back...temples flourished in the capital city of Tainan, although the constant military pressure...
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journal articles on: Tainan  - 43 results

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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...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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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
...1 This was my own experience in Tainan City. According to the abbot of a large...quiet gardens near the East District of Tainan City, the toxic vapors that floated in...11, Sheng-li Street, Yung-kang Village, Tainan County, Tel: (06) 237-5187), said that...
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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
...3 Though only a semiprofessional company, her Tainan Jen Theatre Troupe (Tainanren jutuan h), originally founded as the Hwa Deng Theatre...artistically and organizationally in the city of Tainan and throughout all of southern Taiwan. Both playwrights...
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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 Chinese...provided by the Transportation Bureau in Tainan, there were 842,939 motor vehicles in...These results clearly suggest that in Tainan PAH emissions from cooking sources are...
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A Brief Report on Taiwan's National Legislative Yuan Elections, 19 December 1992
Journal article by Linda Gail Arrigo; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 25, 1993
Subjects: Asia, Asia--Intellectual Life, Asia--Politics And Government
...article spent December 1992 campaigning in Tainan as the spouse of Shih Ming-teh, who...rake-off of nearly half the bid. A KMT Tainan city councilman who made an unsuccessful...nomination, for example, Shih Tai-sheng in Tainan City who was twice jailed for gangsterism...
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Christ's Homelessness
Magazine article by Kosuke Koyama; The Christian Century, Vol. 110, July 14, 1993
Subjects: Mentors--Personal narratives, Spiritual life--Personal narratives
...I had the honor of speaking at his memorial service in New York. Shoki Coe (Chang Hui Hwang), 1914-1988, former principal of Tainan Theological College in Taiwan, was my mentor and spiritual pastor for three decades. On various occasions, Shoki passionately...
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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 his...
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Tension Surrounds Taiwan's Election; an Assassination Attempt, Accusations of Vote-Rigging, a Thin Margin of Victory for the Incumbent and Calls for a Recount Left the Issue of Taiwan's Leadership Unsettled
Magazine article; Insight on the News, April 13, 2004
...assassination attempt and to help monitor the recount effort. The assassination attempt took place in the southwestern city of Tainan on March 19, only 18 hours before the voting began. Chens government put the armed forces on a state of high alert but ordered...
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Asia Major
Magazine article by Gavin Rees; New Statesman, Vol. 130, May 28, 2001
Subjects: Federal aid to the motion picture industry--United Kingdom, Motion picture industry--Analysis
...gangs and the postwar migration to Taiwan from the Chinese diaspora. (Both Yang and Hou were born in mainland China.) The Tainan Academy of Arts, where Hou teaches, has also produced marvellously talented documentary-makers, who devote more time to trying...
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Companies (L-Z)
Magazine article; Occupational Hazards, Vol. 64, January 2002
Subjects: Safety equipment, Safety equipment and supplies industry--Directories, Safety equipment industry--Directories
...905-474-9341 Email: info@winsafe.com Internet: www.winsafe.com Win Win Spectacles Co., Ltd., No. 121-2 Pitoutsun, Kuanmiao, Tainan Hsien, Taiwan Email: winsafe@ms22.hinet.net Internet: www.winwinsafety.com Wire Crafters LLC, 6208 Strawberry Ln., Louisville...
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Potts Gets an Honour from Noodles City
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), November 23, 2008
...a 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. It...
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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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Embassy Row
Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, October 2, 1998
Subjects: China
...governments could find themselves facing a two-China world, says a leading Taiwanese politician. Mayor George Tsan-Hong Chang of Tainan, the countrys fourth-largest city, says his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is gaining on the ruling Kuomintang (KMT). The...
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Tuesday: PICK OF THE DAY
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 25, 2008
...their group of natural beauties agree to have their worst features snapped. NATURE SHOCK FIVE 8pm In 2004, the population of Tainan received a shock when a 50-tonne sperm whale exploded in the street while being transported to a local university. This documentary...
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It's Been a Very Strange Year
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 7, 2005
...splattering cars and shops with blood and blubber. The record-breaking decomposing carcass was so full of gases it blew up in Tainan City before it could be preserved by taxidermists. And that wasnt the only explosion. The Italian town of Caronia was the...
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Tainan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TAINAN or Tai-nan both: ti nan , city (1994 pop. 706,811...there is an important fishing industry. Settled in 1590, Tainan is the oldest city of Taiwan. It was taken over by the...government to Taipei in 1885, when the city was renamed Tainan. A cultural center, it has many temples, the shrine of...
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Taipei
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...by 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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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...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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