Meaning of Pan-ch'iao | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Situated in the centre of the largest agricultural basin in northern Formosa, T’ai-pei (population in 1964 was estimated to be 1,117,000) forms the nucleus of a major industrial area. The T’ai-pei industrial complex includes light and heavy industies within the urbanized area and also in several industrial suburbs, including Pan-ch’iao and Nan-chiang.”

“It is worth noting that in some of these highly productive rice villages the two major landlord families of North Taiwan, the Lin of Pan-ch’iao and the Cheng of Hsin-chu, were among the largest holders.”

“In Pan-ch’iao of Taiwan county, people gathered at the railway station on the morning of February 28 and began beating Mainlanders or rounding them up and assembling them in one place.”

“The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.”

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