Lukang

See also: Lu-kang

English

鹿港鎮圖書館
Lukang Township Library

Alternative forms

• Lu-kang (also from Wade–Giles)
• Lugang (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹿港 (Lùgǎng) Wade–Giles romanization: Lu⁴-kang³; internationally conventional translation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͞oʹgängʹ

Proper noun

Lukang

1. An urban township in Changhua County, Taiwan
   • 1957, Chʻi-yün Chang, The Essence of Chinese Culture‎^[2], →OCLC, page 237:

     The port of Lukang, about 9 miles west of Changhua, and midway between the north and the south, enjoyed a prosperous trade. It is opposite Ch'uanchow, Fukien, 130 miles away, or one day's journey with a fair wind from the latter[...]

   • 1974, Donald R. DeGlopper, “Religion and Ritual in Lukang”, in Arthur P. Wolf, editor, Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Studies in Chinese Society)‎^[3], Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:

     As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of equivalent size. By temple I mean a structure that houses an image, altar, and incense pot, and is freely accessible to the general public. In speaking of the 39 temples of Lukang, I am omitting the numerous small shrines to the unknown dead (Yu Ying Kung), buildings dedicated to ancestors rather than deities (two), Christian churches (four), incense-burner associations that keep their incense pot or image in private homes, and private shrines such as the domestic altars of tang-ki (spirit mediums) or the shrine of the now defunct Ch'üan-chou guild, found in the back room of a drugstore endowed with the guild property.[...]Lukang, seen in comparative perspective, has a lot of temples.

   • 2007 September 8, Stan Shih, quotee, “China's Hu, Taiwan representative meet at APEC”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 07 October 2022, Business News‎^[5]:

     “We sat down and talked during a break and he asked where I got my Mandarin accent from. I replied my hometown is Lukang, Taiwan’s second-largest city 200 years ago, where people from China’s Quanzhou settled.”

   • 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan‎^[6], 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:

     In the 19th century silt deposits began to block the harbour, and the city began to decline. To make matters worse, conservative elements in Lukang refused in the early 20th century to allow trains and modern highways to be built near their city. Lukang became a backwater, only to be reborn decades later when modern Taiwanese began to search for a living connection with the past.

   • 2021, Richard C. Bush, Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life‎^[7], Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:

     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.

   • 2023 January 30, Mei-chu Huang, Jonathan Chin, “Clinic raises money for Ukraine”, in Taipei Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 January 2023, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[9]:

     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.

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

Translations

urban township

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鹿港 (luk⁶ gong²)

  Hokkien: 鹿港 (Lo̍k-káng)

  Mandarin: 鹿港 (zh) (Lùgǎng)

Further reading

• Lukang, Lu-kang, Lugang at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lukang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1802, column 3