Jilong

See also: Jīlóng

English

Alternative forms

• Chi-lung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 基隆 (Jīlóng).

Proper noun

Jilong

1. Synonym of Keelung
   • 1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, Encyclopedia of China Today‎^[1], Eurasia Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     Heavy industry developed in the 1970s at Taiwan's other main cities: Jilong, Taizhong, and Gaoxiung^{[sic – meaning Gaoxiong]}. Jilong, 25 km. east of Taipei, is located near Taiwan's main coal deposit, which has an annual yield of about 2.5 million metric tons.

   • 1987, Hill Gates, “Folk Religions, Old and New”, in Chinese Working-Class Lives‎^[2], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 219:

     We began to think of moving because of the low salary but also because we were getting very tired of living in Jilong. The weather there is simply terrible: it rains constantly, and the wind blows.

   • 2015, Meredith Oyen, The Diplomacy of Migration : Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War‎^[3], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 176:

     The ROC made its own use out of individual refugees’ stories. As an “intellectual,” Zhang Shijie registered with ARCI for resettlement in Taiwan. On October 23, 1953, he arrived at Jilong (Keelung) Harbor in Taiwan with two to three hundred other refugees from the Rennie’s Mill camp.

Translations

Keelung — see Keelung

Anagrams

• joling