Wanhua

See also: Wànhuá

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 萬華 (Wànhuá), Wade–Giles romanization: Wan⁴-hua².

Pronunciation

• enPR: wänʹhwäʹ

Proper noun

Wanhua

1. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • 1956, Cheng-siang Chen, The City of Taipei‎^[1], →OCLC, page 12:

     On the other hand, the local people are for the most part crowded in the western part of this city, that is, the districts of Ta-tao-ch'-en and Wanhua.

   • 1964, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Settlement and Transportation”, in Taiwan-ilha formosa; a geography in perspective‎^[2], Butterworths, →LCCN, page 235:

     The population of Taipei is concentrated in two areas, each having a population density of more than 260,000 persons per square mile. One, the northeast part of the city, roughly coincides with the old Tai-tao-chen area. The other, the southeast part, is approximately the old Meng-Chia, which is now called Wanhua.

   • 1966 August, Arthur P. Wolf, “Childhood Association, Sexual Attraction, and the Incest Taboo: A Chinese Case”, in American Anthropologist‎^[3], volume 68, number 4, American Anthropological Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 889:

     It is not at all uncommon in Hsiachichou for married men to seek the services of prostitutes in the nearby market towns or the Wanhua section of Taipei.

   • 2003 May 12, Thomas Crampton, “Viruses seem to attack cells in the same fashion, expert says : AIDS offers a clue in SARS fight”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 July 2023, WORLD‎^[5]:

     The Taipei city government said 1,000 soldiers trained for chemical warfare would disinfect the city's Wanhua and Chungcheng districts on Monday.

   • 2011 April 8, Erin Meister, “Reveling in the real Taiwain^{[sic – meaning Taiwan]}”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 April 2023, Travel‎^[7]:

     The modern, glass-fronted buildings surrounding the massive skyscraper Taipei 101 in the Xinyi District suggest a shift toward cleaner, starker development, but a trip to older parts of the city reveals hidden corners untouched by modernity.
     The oldest section, Wanhua, with its winding corridors and quiet decay, offers a glimpse of the city’s bygone days. At its bustling heart is the busy Longshan Temple. I bump past a flurry of tourists, worshipers and monks selling prayer beads outside the gates to reach the controlled chaos within, where hundreds of faithful light incense and present offerings at myriad shrines to Buddha and other deities.

   • 2014, Ed Lin, Ghost Month‎^[8], Soho Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:

     Soon enough I was back in the Wanhua District. I think it’s the oldest part of Taipei, but it’s hard to tell with the constant tearing down and building up all over the city.

   • 2017 November 19, Chris Horton, “Where Stinky Tofu Is at Its Malodorous Best”, in The New York Times‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-20, Asia Pacific‎^[10]:

     The first location, in the Wanhua District of old Taipei, was a tiny, standing-room-only affair that drew complaints from neighbors who took their story to Taiwan’s raucous local news media.

   • 2021 May 14, Ben Blanchard, “Bars in Taiwan's capital to close as COVID-19 infections spread”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters‎^[11], archived from the original on 15 May 2021, World‎^[12]:

     Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told a news conference that of the 29 new domestic infections many were connected with an outbreak in Taipei's Wanhua district, a mix of old temples, trendy shops and hostess bars.
     Chen called on people who think they may have had contact with infected patients to go to rapid testing stations the government is setting up around Wanhua.

   • 2021 May 21, Lawrence Chung, “Taipei’s Covid-19 spike traced back to hostess teahouses”, in South China Morning Post‎^[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 21, 2021, China‎^[14]:

     The teahouse culture in Taipei’s Wanhua district is responsible for the recent spike in Covid-19 infections, official figures suggest.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wanhua.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萬華／万华 (zh) (Wànhuá)