Chungli

See also: chứng lí

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 中壢 (Zhōnglì) Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-li⁴.

Proper noun

Chungli

1. Alternative form of Zhongli
   • 1955 June 21, “Christian College to Open in Taipei”, in Gospel Herald‎, volume XLVIII, number 25, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 587, column 3:

     Preliminary to the formal opening of the Christian College later in the year, classes have been established with an enrollment of over 100 students. The college is located in a former army camp in Chungli, about 25 miles from Taipei.

   • 1983 August 14, “Westinghouse Sets Up ROC Subsidiary”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXIV, number 32, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     Westinghouse Corp., has established a fully-owned subsidiary, Westinghouse Taiwan Corp. (WTC), in Chungli, about 40 kilometers southwest of Taipei, and plans to start manufacturing medium-and high voltage power circuit breakers early next year, according to a company spokesman.

   • 1994 July, Robert Storey, “North Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit‎, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 187, column 2:

     To get to Shihmen Reservoir, first take a bus or train to Chungli (zhōnglì), which is 36 km south-west of Taipei.

   • 2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:

     In one period of particularly fierce bombing, we escaped to my wife’s aunt’s house in the Chungli countryside, where we lived in a room in the rear courtyard for a while. Afterwards, I still had to return as usual to work in Taipei. Not long after this, Chungli also was bombed severely, so my wife had to flee to my old home in Tungshih, near Hsinchu.

   • 2008 November 5, Ralph Jennings, “Taiwan's Ma meets China envoy as thousands protest”, in Lin Miao-jung, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 2023-04-24, World News‎:

     “I’m here to resist China,” said Lin Ting-fung, a 52-year-old demonstrator from Chungli city, just south of the capital. “I don’t know how to express myself clearly, but I just don’t feel comfortable when Chen Yunlin is here.”

   • 2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan‎, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 240:

     On the day of my inauguration, the director of the Nationalist Party county office ordered the Chungli mayor to stop trash collection. Because I could not command the Chungli sanitation department directly—it is administered at the local level—piles of garbage began to fester on the streets.

   • 2021 October 4, G. Chen, “Partial Scaffolding Collapse in Taoyuan; Road Closure In Place [桃園拆除工程外牆鷹架傾倒 緊急封路]”, in Public Television Service‎, archived from the original on 2022-10-15‎:

     Just days after a 40-year-old hotel in Hualien City toppled into the street during its demolition, a similar incident took place in Chungli District of Taoyuan, with scaffolding around the building collapsing due to strong wind. Luckily no one was hurt.
     There was a partial scaffolding collapse of a building that has been undergoing demolition work nearby a gas station on Longgang Road in Chungli District.

   • 2022 March 22, Chang Ai, Frances Huang, “MOF says four NT$10 million uniform invoice prizes remain unclaimed”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 22 March 2022, Business:

     Among the four unclaimed winners of the special NT$10 million prize, one was for a NT$29 purchase from food delivery service provider foodpanda, while another was for NT$59 spent in a 7-Eleven convenience store in Taoyuan's Chungli District, the MOF said.

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

Translations

Zhongli — see Zhongli

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chungli”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 408, column 2
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chungli”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 799, column 2
• “Chungli”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Chi-lung