Wunshan

English

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 文山 (Wénshān), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Wúnshan.

Proper noun

Wunshan

1. Alternative form of Wenshan
   • 2006, Douglas L. Fix, “Reading the Numbers: Ethnicity, Violence, and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan”, in Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory‎^[3], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 329:

     With respect to incidents of disorder in single districts, Wunshan district (in Taipei prefecture) rated high in all three data sets.

   • 2007 August 17, “AIDS shelter wins in court due to new law”, in Taiwan Today‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 March 2023:

     The HHA went to court with the management commission of a residential community in which it was located, in the Wunshan District of Taipei City.

   • 2009 January 1, “City officials detained over bribery allegations”, in Yangmingshan National Park‎^[5], archived from the original on 15 August 2022:

     Prosecutors suspect that the officials in question took several million New Taiwan dollars in bribes over a period of more than six years, on dozens of road projects in Taipeis Neihu and Wunshan Districts. […]
     The two officials released on bail included city government official Wu Chin-tang and a technician at the Wunshan District Administration, Lin Chun-hao, who is believed to have acted as a middleman in the bribery case.

   • 2012 June 15, Wu Wen-Hsiang et al., “Applying hierarchical grey relation clustering analysis to geographical information systems – A case study of the hospitals in Taipei City”, in Expert Systems with Applications‎^[6], volume 39, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7253, column 1:

     The distribution of medical resources is excessively centralized in Daan, Songshan, Sinyi, Jhongshan and Wanhua districts, creating excessive competition among hospitals. Meanwhile, the Wunshan and Beitou districts suffer a lack of medical resources.

   • 2012 August 1, Lung-Chang Chien, Chiang-Hsing Yang, Hwa-Lung Yu, “Estimated Effects of Asian Dust Storms on Spatiotemporal Distributions of Clinic Visits for Respiratory Diseases in Taipei Children (Taiwan)”, in Environmental Health Perspectives‎^[7], volume 120, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1217, column 2:

     The greatest increase in visits from pre-ADS weekdays to ADS event days occurred in the Jhongjheng District (27.3 visits), and the greatest increase in visits from ADS event days to post-ADS weekdays was observed in the Wunshan District (37.3 visits).

   • 2014, Pei-Chun Lin, Tai Chiu Edwin Cheng, “ELECTORATE REDISTRICTING FOR A SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT PLURALITY, TWO-BALLOT VOTING SYSTEM: TAIWAN’S ELECTORAL REFORM”, in Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research‎^[8], volume 24, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-04, page 81:

     The eighth constituency incorporates the Wunshan district and ten boroughs in the Zhongzheng district.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “The History of Taipei City”, in Taipei City Government‎^[9], archived from the original on 27 October 2021, page 43:

     Through combining Longshan District, Shuangyuan District, westside of Guting District and Fuxing Li, Cishou Li and Wanshou Li in Chengzhong District as Wanhua District, combining Chengzhong District and Guting District as Jhongjheng District, combining Jingmei District and Muzha District as Wunshan District, Jiancheng District and Yangping District incorporated into Datong District, and southside of Songshan separated into Sinyi District, the entire city was re-divided into 12 new administrative districts on March 12, 1990.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wunshan.

Further reading

• Wunshan at Google Ngram Viewer