Yunlin
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- Yun-lin, Yün-lin (also from Wade–Giles)
Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 雲林／云林 (Yúnlín) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-lin².
Proper noun
[edit]Yunlin
- A county in western Taiwan.
- 1896 August 15, “Formosan Affairs”, in The Japan Weekly Mail[2], volume XXVI, number 7, Yokohama, page 176:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Imahashi writes as follows from Yunlin to one of his friends in Tokyo:-
"On the 15th of July, my force made a thorough search among the mountains...We are now encamped at Yun-lin, and are engaged reconnoitering its neighborhood.
- 1903, James W. Davidson, editor, The Island of Formosa Past and Present[3], pages 358–359:
- The first engagement in which strong opposition was encountered was in the vicinity of Yunlin (Unrin), which was reached on the morning of the 7th by the left column.
- 1959, “Taiwan”, in The Americana Annual 1959[4], Kingsport Press, page 744:
- On June 3 the governor of Taiwan announced a five-year project to develop the underground water resources in Yunlin, where rice yields were expected to be increased by 60,000 to 80,000 metric tons a year after the plan was completed.
- 1961 February, “Taiwan: Shrimp Industry”, in Commercial Fisheries Review[5], volume 23, number 2, page 60:
- The major shrimp fishing grounds of Taiwan are off the coast of southwestern Taiwan from Yunlin to Kaohsiung, waters west of Penghu (Pescadores Islands), and the northern part of the Taiwan Strait.
- 1965, George H. Kerr, Formosa Betrayed[6], page 448:
- When Lei Chen was seized a young Formosan named Su Tung-chi courageously came forward to sign a petition seeking clemency for the elderly journalist. Su was of a prominent family in the Yunlin area, a graduate of Meiji University in Tokyo, and a very popular leader in his home district.
- 1970, Douglas Mendel, The Politics of Formosan Nationalism[7], University of California Press, page 116:
- Su Tung-chi, who had persuaded his Yunlin assembly to pass a resolution asking President Chiang to pardon Lei, was sent to prison on sedition charges in 1962, and was later reported either to have been killed or to be undergoing "thought reform".
- 1973 March 25, “Rice plan to aid farmers”, in Free China Weekly[8], volume XIV, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
- Premier Chiang Ching-kuo (left) visited two cooperative farms and a tidal land reclamation project in Yunlin County in south-west Taiwan March 18. He talks with a farmer in Taiwan dialect through an interpreter.
- 1990 August 21, “Top Taiwan Military Officers Among 18 Killed in Air Crash”, in New York Times[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, page A3[10]:
- The plane, a twin-engined B-1900, also carried three lieutenant colonels, one major, one captain, one sergeant and one engineer. It crashed in bad weather in Yunlin county on its way from Taipei to Chia-i, the officials said.
- 2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan[11], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 121:
- Yao Chia-wen went to the prosecutor's office in Yunlin County to the north to prepare a legal defense.
- 2022 March 31, Ann Wang, “Taiwan puppeteers look to NFTs to keep their art alive”, in Reuters[12], archived from the original on 2022-04-01, Future of Money[13]:
- Pili International Multimedia (8450.TWO), which makes Taiwan's longest-running television show featuring the puppets at its studio in central Taiwan's Yunlin County, says it wants to use NFTs as another source of revenue.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yunlin.
Translations
[edit]county in western Taiwan
Further reading
[edit]- Yunlin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.