Putzu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 朴子 (Púzǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻu²-tzŭ³.

Proper noun

Putzu

1. Alternative form of Puzi
   • 1995, Anti-Corruption Yearbook‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275:

     Another example is that of a tax official at the Putzu branch of the Chiayi County District Tax Office surnamed Tsai, who in September of 1993 violated regulations against releasing private and confidential information […]

   • 1996 March 7 [1996 March 7], Bear Lee, “Taiwan: Li Urges Calm on PRC Plans to Test Missiles”, in Daily Report: China‎^[2], numbers 96-046, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2‎^[3]:

     Li, who is seeking another term as president, made the remarks at a campaign rally in Putzu, Chiayi county, in central Taiwan. Li is running on the ruling Kuomintang ticket with Premier Lien Chang.

   • 2002 [1995], Tehpen Tsai, “Under the Zamboa Tree”, in Grace Tsai Hatch, transl., Elegy of Sweet Potatoes: Stories of Taiwan's White Terror‎^[4], Taiwan Publishing Co. Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:

     A year ago in Putzu, a town of 30,000 people that borders the Tropic of Cancer, when the news arrived that Youde was selected to go to America to study, the town's people were surprised and delighted for him. He was the pride of the town.

   • 2003 April 1, “Order in Disorder”, in Taiwan Today‎^[5], archived from the original on 05 October 2022:

     The road to recognition for the 48-year-old craftswoman was a long one. Like many boys and girls in her hometown of Putzu in southern Taiwan's Chiayi County, Yeh started to work after completing her elementary education to help out the family.

   • 2009 July 3, “Dean of the Police Academy Mr. Hou Yo Yi speech about his life journey”, in Chiayi County Government‎^[6], archived from the original on 25 September 2022:

     The event series of “Q is from Chiayi” held by the “Paper Windmill Foundation” has invited Mr. Hou Yo Yi, the dean of the Taiwan Police Academy who was born in Chiayi County to return to his home county to talk about how a country boy from Putzu became the Dean of the Police Academy in the speech of “The dream of a country boy”. […]
     In the grand hall of the Chiayi Innovation collage, Mr. Hou first shared his affiliations and ties with Chiayi; his family heritage, his parents, the memories of Putzu, interesting episodes during his student life, unforgettable girlfriend and etc.

   • 2021 May 13, Bradley Winterton, “Book review: Novelizing Taiwan’s White Terror”, in Taipei Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2021, Features, page 14‎^[8]:

     Youde was born in 1925 in Chiayi County’s Putzu City (朴子). He went, as did Tsai, to the US for a year on a scholarship after graduating from university, and returned to teach in his home town.

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

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Potzu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2500, column 2: “Sometimes spelled P'u-tzu or Putze.”