Zhanghua

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 彰化 (Zhānghuà).

Zhanghua

1. Alternative form of Changhua
   • 1982 [1980 November], “The Ming-Qing Period: the Twilight of Feudalism”, in Bai Shouyi [白寿彝], editor, An Outline History of China [中国通史纲要] (China Knowledge Series)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 398:

     In 1786, Lin Shuangwen staged an armed uprising in Taiwan. Previously, he had been a leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in Zhanghua, Taiwan. The organization was also known as the Triad Society, a popular, secret group that had its beginning during the reign of Kang Xi. It opposed the Qing regime and was most active in South China. […] After capturing Zhanghua, he was declared “Marshal of Obedience to Heaven”. Meanwhile, another man named Zhuang Datian, having raised the standard of revolt in Fengshan (modem Gaoxiong), attacked and captured Fengshan.

   • 1996 [1993 August 13], Taiwan Affairs Office, “The Taiwan Question and Reunification of China”, in Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai, editors, Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents [中國大陸與臺灣]‎, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:

     In 1721 (60th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi) an office of imperial supervisor for inspecting Taiwan was created and the Taiwan-Xiamen Patrol Command was renamed Prefecture Administration of Taiwan and Xiamen, incorporating the subsequently created Zhanghua County and Danshui Canton.

   • 2004 January 18, Derek Lee, “A `Land of Flowers'”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2004-02-18, Features, page 17‎:

     Flower farming in Taiwan originates in Tianwei (田尾), a town of about 50,000 in Zhanghua County (彰化縣) and residents are used to these bright night scenes in the surrounding countryside from October through March every year. […]
     As such it was no surprise when Zhanghua County Magistrate Wong Chin-chu (翁金珠) chose Hsichou (溪洲), a town a few kilometers south of Tianwei, to host the country's biggest flower expo since 1945.

   • 2006, John Q. Tian, “Industrial Organization and Cross-Strait Economic Interactions”, in Government, Business, and the Politics of Interdependence and Conflict across the Taiwan Strait‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:

     Many Taiwanese companies have expanded into new business areas after investing in the mainland. For example, Ding Xin Group was originally a small mill making sesame oil in central Taiwan’s Zhanghua county when it relocated to the mainland early in 1989 to manufacture cooking oil.