T'ai-nan

At this time Meng-chia was approaching its heyday as Taiwan’s most important commercial center, leaving T’ai-nan and Lu-kang behind.

A country that can no longer rely on cheap labor: Space-age lab in Hsin-chu, producing salt near T'ai-nan

Among his poems is “Zeelandia,” written in early 1975. The title refers to An-p’ing, a fortress in T’ai-nan, in southern Taiwan, where the Dutch landed more than three centuries ago.

Taiwan’s principal urban centers, in traditional order of importance, consisted of T’ai-nan (modem Tainan), Lu-kang, and Meng-chia.

He chose Banka as the seat of his provincial government and named it T’ai-pei (Taipei) or the North of Taiwan. T’ai-wan fu was renamed T’ai-nan (Tainan) or the South of Taiwan.

As a candidate in 1985 in his native T'ai-nan county, his wife was struck by a speeding motorist and was paralyzed from the waist down.

Hsü Shih-hsien [Xu Shixian], 1908–83, was born in T’ai-nan city, Taiwan. Her father, Hsü Huan-ch’ang [Xu Huanchang], was a “cultivated talent” (hsiu-ts’ai) of the former Ch’ing [Qing] dynasty; her mother's name was Ch’en Fu.

Frightened bus drivers in Taiwan have refused to drive to a remote village outside of T'ai-nan because of one ghostly girl. Drivers report stopping at a shadowy area near a sugarcane plantation. A young girl gets on the bus but never gets off. She simply vanishes before the bus gets to town.

In Taiwan, where it originated, bubble tea is a popular beverage that is now enjoyed worldwide. In the middle of the 1980s, the city of T'ai-nan, Taiwan, was the birthplace of bubble tea.