Citations:Cishan

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English citations of Cishan

Prehistoric Culture[edit]

  • 1982, Wan-go Weng, Yang Boda, “Ceramics”, in The Palace Museum: Peking: Treasures of the Forbidden City[1], London: Orbis Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81, column 1:
    Major archaeological finds of the last three decades include the earliest known sites along the Yellow River valley. Some of these sites are classified as belonging to the Cishan culture, after the type site in Wu’an, Hebei Province, and others to the Peiligang culture, after their type site in Xinzheng, Henan Province; both are datable between about 5500 and 5000 B.C. []
    But a few are comb-marked, and at certain Cishan sites, some cord-marked or painted ones have been found. The common vessels are bowls, round-bottomed or with three short legs; deep, wide-mouthed jars; pots with two tiny lugs; caldrons with three or four legs (ding); and, in settlements of the Cishan culture, straight-walled, flat-bottomed jars (yu) and flat-topped, hollow pot supports.
  • 1999, Laurent Sagart, “Agriculture: The Cereals”, in The Roots of Old Chinese[2], volume 184, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:
    Domesticated millets — Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum — appear a little later than rice in the archaeological record, around 6500-5000 BCE in sites of the Peiligang, Cishan and related cultures, in the mid Huang He river valley, the Wei river valley and the upper Han river valley in northern China.
  • 2004, Sarah M. Nelson, “Millet and Pigs in Korea and Manchuria”, in Korean Social Archaeology: Early Villages (Korean Studies Series)‎[3], volume 27, Seoul: Jimoondang, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
    In Manchuria, changes in subsistence and sedentism can be traced through time and between regions. Interpretations of millet cultivation in Manchuria vary, but in general the sites are regarded as related to and derivative from the Cishan culture.

In Taiwan[edit]

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Cishan District Office Kaohsiung City
Cishan Arcades
Cishan Tianhou Temple
  • 2009 August 9, “Typhoon slams Taiwan, China, Japan”, in NBC News[4], archived from the original on 21 December 2021[5]:
    Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in mountain region affected by landslides in the southern county of Kaohsiung.
  • 2009 August 14, “Taiwan leader says more than 500 dead in typhoon”, in Reuters[6], archived from the original on 2023-06-28, World News‎[7]:
    In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing.
  • 2009 August 14, “Ma: more than 500 feared dead in typhoon”, in China Daily[8], archived from the original on August 19, 2009[9]:
    In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing.
    Rescuers used earth movers to clear mud from roads as hundreds of people cleaned homes or storefronts, heaving out water-logged possessions.
    "My store has been closed for days because I figured no one could get to it," said Chen Chih-lu, who owns a furniture shop in Cishan. "My guess is 90 percent of us are digging out of the mud."
    Outside Cishan, swathes of banana trees lay flat in the mud, testimony to agricultural losses totalling T$10 billion. Food prices soared by up to 50 percent and some staples were in short supply.
  • 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan[10], 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206:
    The trail runs relatively wide and flat most of the way, skirting the northern slopes of the deep, V-shaped Cishan River (旗山溪) valley.
  • 2014, KaiHsun Hsieh, Wu YongPei, Lin SuJu, “Investigation of the functional compositions of turmeric collected from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.”, in Crop, Environment & Bioinformatics[11], volume 11, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    We gathered 500 turmeric buds from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in February 2008.
  • 2015, A Fotiadis, C Vassiliadis, SP Yeh, “Participant’s preferences for small-scale sporting events: a comparative analysis of a Greek and a Taiwanese cycling event”, in EuroMed Journal of Business[12], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
    “Bike to Remember” is a cycling event in Cishan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan and has been held for 5 times already. The event is created in memory a typhoon that destroyed a great part of this area. Although the area has now been rebuilt the organizers wanted later generations to know about the disaster and they encouraged participants to write a brief ‘feeling’ paragraph on Facebook after the competitive activity had finished.
  • 2019 September 16, Yang Su-min, Evelyn Kao, “Taiwan reports first-ever H5N5 avian influenza case”, in Focus Taiwan[13], archived from the original on 17 September 2019[14]:
    Taiwan has confirmed the country's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N5 strain of avian influenza on a duck farm in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Council of Agriculture (COA) Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said Monday.
  • 2019, Chen Ting-fang, “Da-ai Sewing Workshop”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung 愛·高雄, number 4, page 6:
    They now have more sewing machines than technicians, so they plan to allow residents from Cishan and Meinong to use them in training programs.
  • (Can we date this quote?), “About Cishan”, in Cishan District Office, Kaohsiung City[15], archived from the original on 2016-09-14[16]:
    The area of Cishan Town is 94.6122 square kilometers, with long and narrow terrain, most of which are hills and over 40,000 populations.
  • 2020, Jason Pan, “Supreme Court rejects final spying case appeal”, in Taipei Times[17]:
    Tu talked about his connections in the Kaohsiung area, and agreed to recruit people in Taiwan’s armed forces to gain access to confidential military material in exchange for money, prosecutors said.
    Tu recruited retired sergeant major Wang Jui-chi (王瑞祺), who was in charge of an ammunition depot in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) while he was in the Army Logistics Command, they said.
    Tu introduced Wang to the Chinese officials and Dong gave Tu cash to give to Wang, they said.
  • 2022 September 2, Tom O'Connor, “If China Moves to Take Taiwan, Report Sees 3,500 Potential Targets”, in Newsweek[18], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2022, World‎[19]:
    Military points of interest named in the report include the Taiwanese navy's Haifeng Brigade, an ammunition depot in Cishan, located near the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's Military Police Command headquarters, and the Army Logistics Training Center.
  • 2022 November 28, “Kaohsiung’s second round”, in Taipei Times[20], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-27, Taiwan News, page 3:
    Supporters of incumbent Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai of the Democratic Progressive Party wave as Chen’s motorcade passes in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District yesterday.