Yuanli
See also: yuánlǐ, yuánlì, yuǎnlí, Yuànlǐ, and yuànlì
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade-Giles) Yuan-li, Yüan-li
Etymology
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 苑裡/苑里 (Yuànlǐ).
Proper noun
Yuanli
- An urban township in Miaoli, Taiwan.
- 1981 August 30, “Gov't. to find causes of air disaster”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2, column 3:
- Two Boeing experts, Thurman Jones, air accident investigation coordinator and K.H. Hommel, a structural engineer, also arrived at the site of the accident between Yuanli, Tunglo and Shuanhu Villages near Sanyi township in Miaoli county, central Taiwan.
- 2017, Cole, J. Michael, “Civic activism and protests in Taiwan: why size doesn't (always) matter”, in Dafydd Fell, editor, Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers, Routledge, →ISBN, OCLC 982062630, page 31:
- On many occasions, public hearings were more symbol than substance; key dissenting voices, interest groups and academics were either not invited, informed too late or barred access form the venue by large police deployments. In some cases, as with the controversy over InfraVest Corp's wind turbine project in Yuanli, Miaoli County, police inside a public hearing would turn their cameras on the villagers and activists, but did not do so when company representatives or government officials were making their case, measures that were regarded as intimidating.
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Translations
urban township in western Taiwan
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