Douliou

English

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 斗六 (Dǒuliù), Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Dǒuliòu.

Proper noun

Douliou

1. Alternative form of Douliu
   • 1999, Michael J. Hatton, “Taiwan Folk Village”, in Community-Based Tourism in the Asia-Pacific‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65, column 3:

     The Village actively supports 13 historic crafts, including the making of cotton comforters, noodles, rice vermicelli, paper, incense, and the molding of clay figures. It also preserves and presents for public education 36 very old structures, including a Hakka residence from Beipu, a farmhouse from Tianwei, an ancient family dwelling from Lugang, an enclosed-courtyard house from Changhua, a scholar’s residence from Penghu, and a “dragon building” from Douliou, as well as more than 3,000 ancient artifacts.

   • 2005, Birdwatching in Taiwan‎^[2], Taipei: Wild Bird Society of Taipei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149‎^[3]:

     Take the train to Douliou, and then catch the Taisi Bus that stops in Shihliou.

   • 2016, Phil Knight, Shoe Dog‎^[4], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:

     Over the next week we visited and toured about two dozen factories. Most were bad. Dark, dirty, with workers going through the motions, heads bowed, vacant looks in their eyes. Just outside Taichung, however, in the small town of Douliou, we found a factory that showed promise. It was called Feng Tay, and it was managed by a young man named C. H. Wong.

   • 2022 January 24, Cheng-hui Chen, “Fulgent sales, profits step upward on shoe demand”, in Taipei Times‎^[5], archived from the original on 23 January 2022:

     Fulgent’s headquarters are in Yunlin County’s Douliou City (斗六), with seven production bases overseas — three in China, three in Vietnam and one in Cambodia.

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