Fangshan
See also: fàngshǎn
English
Etymology 1
From Mandarin 方山.
Proper noun
Fangshan
- A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Translations
county
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Etymology 2
From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 枋山 (Fāngshān).
Proper noun
Fangshan
- A rural township in Pingtung, southern Taiwan.
- 2000, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, number 3739-3751, ISSN 1352-139X, OCLC 28685680, page 8:
- The military exercise, code named “Lien Hsing”, was held at Pingtung County's Fangshan township, involving all three branches of the ROC Armed Forces.
- 2017, “President Tsai”, in Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan), archived from the original on June 13, 2017:
- Born in 1956 in Taipei City, Tsai Ing-wen traces her family roots to Fangshan Township of Pingtung County in southern Taiwan.
- 2020 November 17, Tai-Sheng Su; Chi-Chun Wu; Ling-Wei Chang, “Integration of audio surveillance on a queen bee rearing and breeding management system”, in Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, volume 42, number 4, DOI:, ISSN 0252-2667, OCLC 898000830:
- For this research, we worked with Chen’s Honey of Fangshan Township, Pingtung County, using Eclipse software and Java syntax combined with Access database to develop integrated audio surveillance on a queen bee rearing and breeding management system,[...]
- 2021 September 5, Davidson, Helen, “Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwan village overcame Delta”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 September 2021:
- The hometown of Taiwan’s president, Fangshan’s borders encompass a long stretch of coast and four villages home to around 5,500 people, sandwiched between mountains and oceans. Quiet and picturesque, it’s left off most tourist trails, which instead focus on Kenting national park to the south. […]
In June, midway through Taiwan’s worst Covid outbreak of the pandemic with thousands of cases of the Alpha strain, authorities in the southern county of Pingtung detected a rush of cases in Fangshan, none of which appeared connected.
Fangshan had much in its favour – a low-density rural population with an outdoor lifestyle, and high community compliance. But it also had a lot against it. Fangshan’s health system is listed as “insufficiently resourced”, 20% of the population is over 65, and there were no protocols in place for being Delta ground zero. Almost nobody was vaccinated.
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Translations
rural township in southern Taiwan
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Etymology 3
From Mandarin 房山 (Fángshān).
Proper noun
Fangshan
- A district of Beijing, China.
- [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, LCCN 68-10064, OCLC 1036882, page 533, column 2:
- The hsien consist of Ch'ang-p'ing with the Ming tombs north of the city, Fang-shan where the remains of Peking Man were found southwest of the city, Ta-hsing, T'ung and Shun-yi.]
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Translations
district
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