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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