Juguang

English

Alternative forms

(from Wade–Giles) Chukuang
(from Tongyong Pinyin) Jyuguang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 莒光 (Jǔguāng, literally “the glory of Ju”). The glory of Ju references the spirit of recovering a lost country following the example of Tian Dan when he recovered the state of Qi from the small base area of Ju; the spirit of building a hardworking, thrifty military to carry forward the mission of the recovery of lost territory.[1] By analogy, to apply to the situation of the Republic of China on Taiwan and mainland China under the People's Republic of China.

Proper noun

Juguang

A rural township and island group of Lienchiang, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.
- 2021 February 5, Lee, Yimou; Ben Blanchard, “China's latest weapon against Taiwan: the sand dredger”, in Peter Hirschberg, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 05 February 2021, APAC:
  DAMAGED CABLES
  On five occasions last year, the dredgers damaged undersea communication cables between Nangan and Juguang, another isle in the Matsu group, the three Taiwanese officials told Reuters. Mobile phone and internet services for the islanders were disrupted, they said. There were no such incidents in 2019.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Juguang.

Synonyms

Baiquan, White Dogs

Translations

rural township

Chinese:
Mandarin: 莒光 (zh) (Jǔguāng)

References

Lin, Wei-Ping (2021), “History of the Matsu Archipelago”, in Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan‎, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.1017/9781009023481, →ISBN, page 22: “The new ones generally connote military or governmental ideology; for example, Baiquan (White Dog) was renamed as Juguang (an allusion to a historical allegory about recovering national territory), […] ”

[1] Lin, Wei-Ping (2021), “History of the Matsu Archipelago”, in Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan‎, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.1017/9781009023481, →ISBN, page 22: “The new ones generally connote military or governmental ideology; for example, Baiquan (White Dog) was renamed as Juguang (an allusion to a historical allegory about recovering national territory), […] ”