P'eng-hu
See also: Penghu and Pénghú
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 澎湖 (Pénghú) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻêng²-hu².[1]
Proper noun
P'eng-hu
- Alternative form of Penghu
- 1998, Jeffrey E. Curry, Passport Taiwan, World Trade Press, →ISBN, LCCN 97-8028, OCLC 60197657, page 26:
- The major island group, Pʻeng-hu, is devoted to fishing. (The Portuguese called them the Pescadores or Fishermen Islands.) This small archipelago was the point of entry of most of the Portuguese, Dutch, French and Japanese invasions. Because of the continued threat, Taiwan maintains numerous military installations on these islands as well as on others located in the strait between Pʻeng-hu and the mainland.
- 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, OCLC 1087897007, OL 8643066M, page xi:
- To truly complete the journey and discover the roots of Taiwan’s southern Min majority one would have to travel to the P’eng-hu islands (Pescadores) and then still farther west to the shores of southern Fukien and the cities and towns along the province’s east-facing coast, which is where new history of Taiwan begins.
- 2011, Lingzhen Wang, editor, Chinese Women's Cinema, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 754326500, OL 25138394M, page 142:
- The Strait Story employs a parallel narrative structure that depicts the life stories of artist Huang Ch'ing-ch'eng, who was born in P'eng-hu during the time of the Japanese occupation, and contemporary art restorer Hsiu-hisu, who grows interested in Huang Ch'ing-ch'eng's work and is drawn to uncover the details of his life (fig. 5.2).
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Translations
Penghu — see Penghu
References
- P'eng-hu Islands, (Wade-Giles romanization) P’eng-hu Ch’ün-tao, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “P'eng-hu”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “P'eng-hu” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.