1877 March 12, Herbert J. Allen, Notes of a Journey through Formosa from Tamsui to Taiwanfu (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society)[1], volume 21, page 261:
As we were now going to have rougher travelling than we had had, we despatched a courier to Taiwanfu with our surplus baggage, and letters to inform the Consul of our plans. We went S.S.E. for 13 miles over a fertile plain, cultivated with sugar-cane, tobacco, ground-nut, sweet potatoes, &c., drawing gradually towards the range of hills on our left. At the head of the gorge, due east of the district town of Changhua, we were met by a party of thirty or forty tall, stalwart Pepohuans, armed with knives and match-locks, who were to be our bodyguard through the mountains, to protect us from the savages.
1888, Mr. Denby to Mr. Bayard (Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States for the Year 1887)[2], number 179, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 224:
SIR: I have the honor to report that the governor of Formosa, Lin Ming-Chuan, has made a contract with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., for the supply by the latter of rails, rolling stock, and bridge for a narrow-gauge, light-weight railway of 80 miles in length. The line is to be from Tamsui to Changhua, the future capital of the island. The only stream to bridge is the Taikia River. It will be spanned by a lattice girder bridge in two sections, of a joint length of 1,400 feet.
It is interesting to learn that the progress of Taipei and Kelung is not so far interfering with the prosperity of Twatutia and Tamsui. The former is the open town that has never been formally opened, is the centre of the Formosan tea trade, and is nominally a part of its sea-port Tamsui. Here we read that the foreshore between the foreign hongs and the river has been filled in and bunded by Chinese capitalists, who are covering it with buildings for European residences, godowns and offices. The railway from Taipei to Changhua is to pass through Twatutia, and a bridge is being constructed across the river at the latter spot.
1889 October 9, Pelham Warren, Commerce of Takao and Taiwanfoo (Reports from the Consuls of the United States)[4], volume 32, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 201:
The attempts of the governor to raise revenue by increasing the land-tax five-fold resulted in an outbreak of determined opposition and culminated in actual insurrection in the latter part of the summer of 1888. The first rising took place at Pilam, a town on the southeast coast. The Chinese settlers there entered into an alliance with the neighboring savages, and, in spite of the dispatch of some 3,000 troops, appear to have successfully held their own. What the result would have been in the long run it is difficult to estimate, but the anti-land-tax movement having broken out in the district of Changhua, in the very center of the island, the authorities, it is believed, compromised the question at Pilam, so as to have their hands free to cope with the much more formidable state of affairs at Changhua.
1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa[5], Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 44:
In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan.
1945 December, Resumption of United States Trade with the Far East: Reopening of Commercial Channels and Relaxation of Trade Controls[6], Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, →OCLC, page 3:
Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines will exactly coincide with those of the provinces under Japanese rule, this is probable. Names of the new hsien (districts), with corresponding Japanese province names in parentheses, are as follows: Taipei (Taihoku); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hwalienkan (Karenko); and Taitung (Taito). The Pescadores Islands form the eighth hsien. Nine cities will continue to be recognized as municipalities: Taipei (Taihoku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Chilung (Kiirun or Keelung); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Chiayi (Kagi); Changhua (Shoka); and Pintung (Heito).
1956 June 27, Charlotte A. Dunlap, “Women's Work”, in Southern Presbyterian Journal[7], volume 15, number 9, page 11:
We gave our Changhua preacher's wife a gift when her second baby was born at Christmas time just because she is young and badly wants nice things for her infant girl.
Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa). His father was an accountant in a rice shop and a descendant of the three hundred Fukienese families who went to Taiwan with Koxinga, who led a rebellion there against the Manchus. At the age of six Ts'ai Ch'ien entered primary school, studied Japanese, and graduated after eight years. He taught at the same school, in Changhua, for one year. In 1924 he came to Shanghai, financed partly by his father and partly by the Chinese Cultural Association of Taiwan. He attended Shanghai University, where Yü Yu-jen was president, in 1924-25.
1983, Lois Wong Chi, Robin Dodson, Fred Ung, “Emergence Pattern of Cercariae from Oncomelania hupensis formosana, Snail Host for Zoophilic Schistosomiasis japonicum”, in The Veliger[9], volume 25, number 3, page 194:
Oncomelania hupensis formosana collected from the field at Changhua, Taiwan, were used throughout the shedding experiments. They were reared in either 13 cm clay saucers with mud mixture and water (WAGNER & CHI, 1959) or in 20 cm glass bowls.
About three miles (5 km) south of Changhua, along County Route 137 in Huatan, the Taiwan Folk Village (30 Sanfen Rd., Wanya Village Huatan Township, tel (04) 787-0088, $$ closed Mon.) showcases traditional Taiwanese culture-and more.
2020 January 8, Steven Lee Myers, Chris Horton, “China Looms Over Taiwan’s Election, Giving a Boost to the Incumbent”, in New York Times[10]:
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan campaigning in the city of Changhua on Tuesday.
2020 July 14, Frida Ghitis, “Can Taiwan survive a second Trump term?”, in Washington Post[11]:
Taiwanese war planes are parked on a highway during an annual exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan's airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan.
[1843 March, “Narrative of the loss of the English brig Ann: and of the caputre of the whole, and the decapitation of forty-three of her crew, by the Chinese authorities in Formosa.”, in The Chinese Repository[12], volume XII, number 3, Canton, →OCLC, page 119:
On Monday, the 14th, after a breakfast of salt greens, rice and congee, eaten in the presence of the Chinese officers, they were numbered and labeled like oxen, and under a strong escort led away southward about 20 miles to a walled town, probably Chánghwáhien, where they arrived about 4 P. M.]
1979 February 18, “'Cowgirl' finds contentment, prosperity on the land”, in Free China Weekly[13], volume XX, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
That is why Yeh Hui-chen goes contentedly every day to her family ranch in the Mt. Bank area of Changhua county in central Taiwan to pursue her chosen profession.[...]In the past, the inhabitants eked out a meager living by growing pineapples and plums, which had to be carried out on foot through the rugged mountain area on the border of Changhua and Nantou counties.
2003 June 18, “President Chen Inspects an Industrial Park in Changhua County”, in Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)[14]:
The president made the remarks during an inspection tour of the central county of Changhua where he visited a new-style touch fasteners manufacturing firm and an industrial park.
[2012 September 27, Elaine Huang, “Return of the Tire Maker”, in CommonWealth Magazine[15], volume 506, archived from the original on 24 November 2017, Finance[16]:
Kenda's corporate headquarters are located in Yuanlin in Taiwan's Jhanghua County.]
Taiwan has confirmed new outbreaks of bird flu at two farms in Changhua County, and culled more than 13,000 chickens and ducks, the island's animal and plant health inspection and quarantine bureau said on Saturday.
During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protest movements arose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- the dangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominent movements occurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986.
2021 April 7, Vera Eckert, Christoph Steitz, “EnBW feels well-positioned for next Taiwan offshore wind auction”, in Reuters (Commodities News)[20], archived from the original on 07 April 2021[21]:
EnBW entered the Taiwanese offshore wind market in 2018 and owns a 25% stake in the Formosa 3 project off the coast of Changhua, which has a projected capacity of up to 2 gigawatts (GW).
2022 February 25, “Alleged Changhua robber commits suicide”, in Taipei Times[22], archived from the original on 24 February 2022:
One of the suspects in a robbery at the home of a popular livestreamer’s relative has died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound while the other suspect has been arrested, Changhua County police said on Monday. Two armed men on Feb. 4 reportedly broke into the home of the uncle of shopping livestreamer “DiuDiu Mei” (丟丟妹) in Changhua’s Shengang Township (伸港), stealing NT$300,000 in cash. Changhua Criminal Investigation Corps head Hsu Chung-yen (許忠彥) said that although the men wore balaclavas and removed their vehicle’s license plates, surveilance[sic – meaning surveillance] camera footage enabled police to track them down.
2023 January 30, Mei-chu Huang, Jonathan Chin, “Clinic raises money for Ukraine”, in Taipei Times[23], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2023, Taiwan News, page 3[24]:
A traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Changhua County has raised NT$555,000 in a two-day campaign drive to buy medical supplies, humanitarian aid materials and an ambulance for war-torn Ukraine.[…] A Court Clinic became involved in fundraisings for Ukraine after Cai Chuan-te (蔡全德), the medical director of the franchise’s main branch in Changhua’s Lukang Township (鹿港), heard about Chiang’s effort from Hsinchu branch director Chai Shen-yen (翟慎言), the clinic said.
