Citations:Penghu

English citations of Penghu

• 1947, Hollington K. Tong, editor, China Handbook‎^[1], page 33:

  FORMOSA
  During the Cairo Conference in November, 1943, it was agreed among President Chiang Kai-Shek, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill that China should recover all the territories she had lost to Japan, including Fomosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) Islands ceded to the invaders after the first Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95.

• 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus‎^[2], volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4:

  In the Penghu Islands, the fourth agricultural region, scanty rainfall, poor soils, and strong winds, limit agricultural production to sweet potatoes and peanuts.

• 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:

  Koxinga's son Jheng Jing succeeded his father and ruled for the next 20 years until his death, when his son, only 12 years old, was placed on the throne. A year later, in 1684, the Jheng navy was all but wiped out near the Penghu Islands.

• 2022 August 15, Ryan Woo, Ben Blanchard, “Angry China stages more drills near Taiwan as U.S. lawmakers visit”, in Himani Sarkar, Robert Birsel, Raissa Kasolowsky, editors, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 August 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

  The theatre command said the exercises took place near Taiwan's Penghu islands, which are in the Taiwan Strait and are home to a major air base, and showed close up video of the islands taken by a Chinese air force aircraft.