Chiaohsi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 礁溪 (Jiāoxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiao¹-hsi¹.

Proper noun

Chiaohsi

Alternative form of Jiaoxi
- 1980 January 6, “ROC GREETS SELF-RELIANT YEAR”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume 21, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
  Some 300 schoolchildren, led by their teacher, jogged to Taipei from suburban Panchiao to take part in the ceremony, while a group of citizens from the coastal spa resort of Chiaohsi in Ilan county arrived aboard chartered buses.
- 1994 July, Robert Storey, Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit‎^[2], 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 176, column 2:
  There are a number of outstanding hikes from Doll Valley along rugged trails. It’s even possible to walk all the way to the east coast near Chiaohsi in Ilan County, but finding the way will require detailed directions, if not a guide.
- 2003 June 3, “President Chen Attends the Erhlung Dragon Boat Race at Chiaohsi”, in Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)‎^[3], archived from the original on 12 September 2022:
  President Chen Shui-bian said Wednesday that the annual Erhlung dragon boat race at Chiaohsi, in the northeastern Taiwan county of Ilan, deserves to be preserved as it epitomizes the essence of indigenous culture.
  Chen, who arrived in Chiaohsi early in the morning to attend the opening ceremony for the dragon boat race on the Erhlung River, said the event is a unique cultural activity.
- 2005 January 3, Yu-tzu Chiu, “Ilan pieces together the past”, in Taipei Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 January 2005, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[5]:
  In the research offices and labs of the Ilan County Cultural Bureau, tens of thousands of pieces of Kavalan cultural remains found at the Kibannoran historic site (淇武蘭遺址) in Chiaohsi Township are waiting to be pieced together and studied.
  Chiaohsi, which sits beside sea volcanoes, is well known for its murmuring hot springs and beautiful environment.
- 2018 April 18, Renée Salmonsen, “Taiwan Town Brand Awards event commends local development”, in Taiwan News‎^[6], archived from the original on 18 April 2018, Society‎^[7]:
  The top TTBA awardees are as follows:
  Gold Medal
  Chiaohsi District of Yilan (礁溪鄉公所)
- 2020, Leo Tak-hung Chan, “Acknowledgments”, in Western Theory in East Asian Contexts: Translation and Transtextual Rewriting‎^[8], Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page x:
  Individual chapters of this book have been presented on various occasions over the past decade, although I would like to mention four of them in particular. One is the International Conference on “Globalization and Cultural Identity/Translation,” held in Foguang University at Chiaohsi (Taiwan) in 2008, where I gave a keynote speech based on an early version of the chapter on Murakami Haruki.
- 2021, “Tzu Chi's Recycling and the Volunteer Spirit”, in Co-existing With The Earth: Tzu Chi's Three Decades Of Recycling‎^[9], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
  In the course of recycling, the volunteers are enlightened by their observation of the new use for what seemed like useless objects. […]
  One such person was Chang Lin Chao of Chiaohsi township in Yilan. She started recycling at the age of 90 and carried on until she passed away at the age of 104.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiaohsi.