P'ing-tung

Proper noun

Pingtung

1. A county in southern Taiwan.
   • Another obvious deficiency of the Nationalists is their lack of understanding of the importance of maintaining equipment. They're great at repairing equipment, but they also have a talent for wrecking it. At the Pingtung air base is a hangar full of airplane engines, 101 of them at last count. They...1953 February 9, Harold Lavine, “Chiang's Troops: They Are Rarin' to Fight Back”, in Newsweek, volume XLI, number 6, page 33
2. A city in and the administrative seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan.
   • Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities. After retrocession, the KMT local cadres used local factions to establish their influence and control.1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85