Tahsi
English edit
Etymology edit
From Mandarin 大溪 (Dàxī), Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-hsi¹.
Proper noun edit
Tahsi
- Alternative form of Daxi
- 1975 April 13, “Late President funeral service set for April 16”, in Free China Weekly[1], volume XVI, number 14, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
- The committee also decided that the remains of President Chiang will be entombed temporarily by Tzu Lake, at Tahsi township of Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan, and will be buried on the mainland after it is recovered.
- 1988 January 17, Clyde Haberman, “Taiwan Imprisons 2 Backing Independence”, in The New York Times[2], archived from the original on 01 February 2011:
- Although the ruling party, the Kuomintang, insists that its basic policies have not changed, uncertainty about this island nation's political direction has increased since the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo on Wednesday.
The Government announced today that Mr. Chiang's funeral would be held on Jan. 30 and that he would be buried in the town of Tahsi, 20 miles southwest of Taipei.
- 1994 July, Robert Storey, “North Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit[3], 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 187, column 1:
- To reach Tzuhu from Taipei, first take a train to Taoyuan (táoyuán) or Chungli (zhōnglì). From there you can get a bus directly to Tzuhu or else to the nearby town of Tahsi (dàxī), from where you’ll have to get another bus to Tzuhu. Buses from Tahsi to Tzuhu are not very frequent so you might have to take a taxi. Fortunately, it’s not very far so it’s not too expensive.
- 2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su[4], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110:
- In 1973, we built a new factory in Tahsi in Taoyuan County, which occupied an area of 600,000 square feet.
- 2007 January 7, “Lee to visit Japan if health holds up”, in Taipei Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 January 2007, Taiwan News, page 3:
- Former president Lee Teng-hui and his wife Tseng Wen-hui cut Lee's birthday cake in Tahsi in Taoyuan County yesterday to celebrate Lee's upcoming 86th birthday.
- 2015, Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈), translated by Carole Plackitt and Tim Casey, A New Illustrated History of Taiwan[7], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118:
- 6.6 Tak’ok’an (Tōakhokhām in Holo) on the uppermost reaches of the Tamsui River, was a collection point for tea transport in the late Ch’ing period. The town is today called Tahsi.
- 2018 April 4, “10 Taiwanese protesters charged with vandalising Chiang Kai-shek’s tomb”, in South China Morning Post[8], archived from the original on 02 June 2018[9]:
- Soldiers stand guard in front of the late President Chiang Kai-shek’s mausoleum in Tahsi, Taoyuan county, in northern Taiwan in this file image.
- 2021 June 21, “原住民族委員會因應嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎振興措施行動支付回饋”, in 原住民族委員會全球資訊網[10], archived from the original on 13 September 2022, page 15:
- The said workshop is located at Tahsi, Taoyuan. It mainly teaches aboriginal handicrafts which include cloth weaving, Polymer clay prin, and bead chains.
- 2022 April 1, Vladimir Stolojan-filipesco, “The second life of a political cult: Official and popular reappropriation of Chiang Kai-shek statues in post-martial law Taiwan”, in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture[11], volume 8, number 1, , →ISSN, →OCLC:
- In 1997, he allowed the mayor of Tahsi to put discarded statues of Chiang Kai-shek in what was a vegetable garden next to the site’s entrance.
- (Can we date this quote?), “大溪豆乾 [Dried Tofu]”, in NCHU DFLL & MIS[12], archived from the original on 27 September 2022[13]:
- The most famous Dried Tofu comes from Tahsi Town in Taoyuan county.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tahsi.
Translations edit
Daxi — see Daxi
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Tahsi or Tachi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[14], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3084, column 3