Hsintien
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 新店 (Xīndiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsin¹-tien⁴.
Proper noun
[edit]Hsintien
- Alternative form of Xindian
- 1980 October 19, “Yue Loong achieves first car exports”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly][1], volume XXI, number 41, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
- Counting in the company’s existing facilities at Hsintien in suburban Taipei, where 2,000 people are employed, Yue Loong will be able to produce 260,000 sedans a year, ranging from 1200cc to 2400cc in engine displacements and light trucks by 1985, Mrs. Yen estimated.
- 2000 June 17, Irene Lin, “Two soldiers flee maximum-security Hsintien prison”, in Taipei Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 October 2022, Local News, page 3[4]:
- Two army soldiers detained for robbery and theft escaped from the maximum-security military penitentiary in Hsintien, Taipei County, yesterday evening.
- 2001, Robert Green, “A Republic in Exile”, in Taiwan[5], Lucent Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 59:
- In 1947 Chiang brought the successor of the Blue Shirts to Taiwan. The new agency blended law enforcement with counterespionage. Its headquarters in the Hsintien suburb of Taipei became a feared place, where opponents of the government were interrogated with cruel techniques.
- 2020 November 16, Phillip Charlier, “Investigation Bureau loses 6.5 kilograms of amphetamines”, in Taiwan English News[6], archived from the original on 16 November 2020[7]:
- According to media reports, officers from the Keelung City Field Office, Maritime Affairs Field Division lost the haul while it was being delivered to a investigative laboratory in Hsintien District, New Taipei City, in November last year, but the incident was not reported to head office until sometime last week.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hsintien.