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Citations:Taoyuan

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English citations of Taoyuan

Taiwan

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  • 1953 June, Cooperative Extension Service, “4-H Clubs Thrive in Formosa”, in Extension Service Review[1], volume 24, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 112:
    One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.
  • 1979 June 10, “10 nations in talks on efficient use of land”, in Free China Weekly[2], volume XX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
    An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.
  • 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan[3], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
    Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family. Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.
  • 2018 October 9, “Taiwan conducts massive military drills ahead of National Day”, in EFE[4], archived from the original on 18 August 2022:
    Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country.
    The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.

China

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  • 1915 September 24, Nelson T. Johnson, “Hunan Province”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports[5], number 52i, page 27:
    The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.
  • 1944, Philip Graves, The Seventeenth Quarter[6], Hutchinson & Co., pages 157–158:
    By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated northwards.
  • 1945 July 1, Japanese Parachute Troops[7], Washington, D.C.: Military Intelligence Service, page 29:
    At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.