Meaning of Fongshan | Babel Free

Definitions

A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Examples

“12 a.m. - Zip across on the train, a five-minute or so ride, to Kaohsiung’s rather rough-and-ready neighbor Fongshan. Grab a quick lunch of delicious fried meat buns at Fongshan Old Shop Fried Buns (corner of Wei-sin Rd and Jhong-shan Rd), and then go to “beating iron street”.”

“In January 2005, a 27-year-old woman living in Fongshan City, Kaohsiung County, in southern Taiwan as admitted to Kaohsiung Medicial University Hospital with a 4-day history of intermittent fever (37.8°C-38.0°C), chills, headache, and fatigue.”

“Fongshan City Fongshan City is located in southern Kaohsiung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Immediately east of Kaohsiung City, Fongshan is capital of Kaohsiung County and is home to the Chinese Military Academy.”

“After the Communist victory in 1949, the academy was relocated to Fongshan in Taiwan under the name of the Chinese Military Academy (renamed the Military University in 2004).”

“3. Former Japanese Navy Radio Station, Fongshan (原日本海軍鳳山無線電信所) The former Imperial Japanese Navy Fongshan Wireless Communications Station is located in the Fongshan District of Kaohsiung and offers a fascinating insight into a dark period of history for Taiwan and especially the KMT.”

“I brought up Fongshan as an example. Fongshan (鳳山區) is Kaohsiung’s most populous district with over 400,000 residents. For centuries it was a city; in fact it’s among the oldest settled areas in greater Kaohsiung. Fongshan City became Fongshan (Fengshan) District in 2010. Before the city-county merger, Fongshan had an elected mayor and for the KMT – Fongshan was a reasonably reliable “blue” spot, mostly due to many ROC military family residents.”

“Mao said that he and his brother, Mao Chueh-fei (毛卻非), served on landing ship Mei Song (美頌) — his brother the captain and he a communications officer — before they were detained in Kaohsiung. He could hear his brother being beaten every day while they were detained at a naval facility in Fongshan District (鳳山), Mao Fu-cheng said, adding that he was transferred to Taitung County’s Green Island (綠島) for five years. His brother was executed, he said. “I cannot help but remember those days in Fongshan when I watch footage of Hong Kong police beating protesters,” Mao Fu-cheng said, adding that everyone who supports freedom and human rights should support Hong Kong.”

“A one-year-old child who was in critical condition after being rescued from a burning building in Kaohsiung early on Friday died yesterday morning, a local hospital said. The child, surnamed Chen (陳), died at the hospital from severe injuries, the Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital said, without disclosing further details about the girl’s death out of respect for the family’s privacy. She was the fourth person to die as a result of the blaze, which occurred at a four-story building owned by her family in Fongshan District (鳳山).”

CEFR level