Citations:Sigang

English citations of Sigang

Sigang District Office, Tainan City

• [1994, David K. Jordan, “The Popular Practice of Religion”, in Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan‎^[1], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 138–139:

  The fieldwork areas include (1) the pseudonymous village of Bao-an, in Tainan County and its adjacent market town of Hsikang, home of a large triennial regional chiao festival that includes Bao-an and most villages around it;[...]
  In 1965 I settled into the comparatively wealthy village of Bao-an, just north of Tainan City.[...]An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high. And the “agricultural’’ township of Hsikang now boasted enough factories to sponsor a two-room exposition of Hsikang manufactured goods.]

• 2007 October, F.-J. Jan, S. K. Green, S. L. Shih, L. M. Lee, H. Ito, J. Kimbara, K. Hosoi, W. S. Tsai, “First Report of Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus in Taiwan”, in Plant Disease‎^[2], volume 91, number 10, American Phytopathological Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

  Six symptomatic leaf samples of three different tomato plants from each infected field were collected in Liouying (LY3, 7, and 8) and Sigang (SG9, 13, and 18) townships in Tainan County.

• 2009, Wan-Hui Chen, Sheng-Hsiung Chang, Wan-I Lin, Kui-Chuan Kao, Szu-Yu Lin, “Design and Evaluation of Bus Information at Bus Stops and Printed Information Brochures for the Elderly”, in Trans. Planning Journal‎^[3], volume 38, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

  A questionnaire was conducted to understand the minimum font sizes that the elderly need to see information at bus stops and in transportation information brochures clearly. Sigang Township in Tainan County has been chosen as the study area.

• 2012, Tzu-yu Lin, Seiichi Sakuno, “Successful aging and leisure environment: a comparative study of urban and rural areas in Taiwan”, in Waseda J. Sport Sci‎^[4], volume 9, →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 November 2018, page 3:

  Tainan City located in south Taiwan, was the first city in Taiwan to build “an eldercare center”.[...]There are 24,797 people in Sigang District, and the geographically centralized location is good for the elderly living there, and the percentage of population of the elderly there is 18.22% (Ministry of Interior of Taiwan, 2011), which met the standard of an aged society (14%).

• 2017, 丘琦欣 [Brian Hioe], “TWO-DAY ARTS FESTIVAL ORGANIZED TO CALL FOR PRESERVATION OF SIGANG FARMLAND IN TAINAN”, in New Bloom‎^[5]:

  A LAND APPROPRIATION case would be presently unfolding in Tainan, with plans by the city government to expand a highway in Sigang District protested by local residents. Highway expansion plans will destroy not only farmland, but also historic sugar railway originally constructed during the Japanese colonial period to transport sugar from the fields to sugar mills and trees with historic value.

• 2019 November 16, “Tainan to present 12 dowry gifts to Lin Chi-ling, groom”, in Taipei Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[7]:

  The gifts also include sesame oil from Shanhua (善化) and Sigang (西港) districts, salt from Cigu (七股), Dongcheng soy sauce and Chengkung soy sauce from Sinhua (新化), plum vinegar from Nansi (楠西) and white gourd tea bricks from the West Central District (中西區).
  In addition, the gifts include a set of silk bedsheets and pillowcases, which represent a wish for the newlyweds to sleep well at night, dried longans and longan honey produced in Dongshan District (東山) that signify a wish for the birth of a son, Puli-produced lappa and soft rush products from Sigang District (西港), which are to be given to Akira’s parents.

• 2021 May 28, “Geographical location, natural environment, and industry overview”, in Sigang District Office, Tainan City‎^[8], archived from the original on 16 February 2022‎^[9]:

  Sigang District is located in southwest Jianan plain, north of the Zengwun River.

• 2022 May 6, Steven Crook, “Highways & Byways: Hugging Tainan’s trees”, in Taipei Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Features, page 13‎^[11]:

  Some of the trees have suffered prolonged mistreatment. According to the profile of tree no. 150, a Chinese banyan (榕, Ficus microcarpa) just west of Jinsha Elementary School (金砂國小) in Sigang District (西港), it has been repeatedly hacked at so it doesn’t interfere with utility lines.