Lu-kang
See also: Lukang
English
Map including Lu-chiang (Rokko) 鹿港 (bottom left) (AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鹿港 (Lùgǎng) Wade-Giles romanization: Lu⁴-kang³.
Proper noun
Lu-kang
- Alternative form of Lukang
- 1976, Wang Chen-ho, “An Oxcart for the Dowry”, in Jon Jackson, transl.; Joseph S. M. Lau, editor, Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 75-43971, OCLC 603115333, OL 5214089M, page 90:
- At the same time, Chien declared that he must go back to Lu-kang to visit, then on to Taipei for a new supply of clothes.
- 1987, Wen-hui Tsai, “Taiwan's Social Developments”, in Huangdah Chiu, editor, Survey of Recent Developments in China (Mainland and Taiwan), 1985-1986, ISSN 0730-0107, OCLC 1223454236, page 134:
- The ROC central government approved DuPont’s application to build an agricultural pesticide plant in the Chang-ping Industrial Zone near Lu-kang in August, 1985. However, the residents of Lu-kang and its nearby villages feared that the construction of a DuPont plant would definitely pollute local water and destroy the area’s seashore beauty and fishery. As one of the oldest communities in Taiwan, Lu-kang has a tremendous collection of cultural and historical treasures.
- 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, OCLC 1087897007, OL 8643066M, page x:
- South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.
- [2016, Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese biography, volume 4, Berkshire Publishing Group, →ISBN, OCLC 727701558, page 397:
- Stan Shih was born on 8 December 1944 in the countryside village of Lu-Kang, located on the western coast of central Taiwan.]
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Translations
Lukang — see Lukang
Further reading
- Lu-kang, in Encyclopædia Britannica