"Tsochen" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 左鎮 (Zuǒzhèn), Wade–Giles romanization: Tso³-chên⁴.",
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          "ref": "1995, Michael Day, “Hong Kong, December 1991”, in Fight for the Tiger: One Man's Fight to Save the Wild Tiger from Extinction, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 262–263:",
          "text": "I was in the field and had a lead to run down, and so for the next few days I stationed myself at the Redhill Hotel in Tainan and searched.\nI found more orangutans, clouded leopards, scarlet macaws and abundant domestic species being secretly traded and butchered, recording it all on hidden cameras. But no tiger slaughter. I found another farm just outside the town of Hsinhua and that led me to the village of Tsochen and then on a wild-goose chase across the county to a place called Chiali. Some new American friends from Tainan who invariably came along with me to translate began to think I was completely nuts.",
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          "ref": "2000, Chien-chao Hung, “Introduction”, in A history of Taiwan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "Human fossils were found in caves near Changpin in southeast Taiwan and at Tsochen near Tainan on the southwest coast of the island in the 1960s.",
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          "ref": "2005, Jonathan Manthorpe, “Leaf on the Waves”, in Forbidden Nation, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "In the 1960s human remains, pottery, and stone tools were found in caves in southern Taiwan at Changpin in the far southeast and at Tsochen near Tainan on the southern west coast.",
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          "ref": "2005 June 14, “Floods kill three, destroy crops”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2005-06-15, Front Page, page 1:",
          "text": "A mudslide buried alive a 65-year-old woman at a mountainous village in Tsochen in the southern county of Tainan earlier yesterday, while a man in the southern county of Pingtung was electrocuted, police said.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 September 1, “Museum from Another Era”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 2022-10-06:",
          "text": "Visitors to NTM also can see the fossilized remains, including large fossilized skeletons, of various species of animals and plants, as well as mineral samples. Among other significant relics are fragments of human skulls unearthed in the early 1970s in Tainan County's Tsochen (Zuojhen) Township.",
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          "ref": "2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:",
          "text": "In the town of Yujing our route connects with Provincial Highway 20, which you can continue on to reach Tainan city. However, when you pass through Tsochen (左鎭; Zuǒzhèn), it’s worth heading out to Mt Tsao Moon World (草山月世界; Cǎoshān Yuè Shìjiè), a grimly picturesque landscape of barren eroded cliffs and pointy crags.",
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          "ref": "2015, Paul van der Grijp, “The gift of Tsochen Man: private donations to national museums in Taiwan”, in Museum and Society, volume 13, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-24, page 284:",
          "text": "For many years, that collector had been searching for fossils around the river bed of the Tsailiao, which flows through Tsochen city in the Tainan district.",
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          "ref": "2019, Xiaobing Li, “Prehistory and Aboriginal Cultures to 1100”, in The History of Taiwan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:",
          "text": "During 1971-1972, several Taiwanese scholars and a Japanese biologist discovered human remains, including three cranial fragments and a tooth, in Tsochen (Zuozhen), Tainan County.",
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          "ref": "2019 July 20, Ai Kawamura et al., “The earliest fossil record of the bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) from the early Middle Pleistocene of Taiwan with discussion on the Quaternary history of the species”, in Quaternary International, volume 523, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-08:",
          "text": "Tsailiao is a small village in the Tsochen District of Tainan City, Taiwan (Fig. 1). Tsailiao and its surroundings are well known among researchers who study the Quaternary geology and paleontology of Taiwan because they have yielded abundant and diverse mammalian fossils of Pleistocene age.",
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          "ref": "2023 February 25, Jo Wen Li, “The young professor who discovered a dinosaur fossil in Taiwan”, in David Toman, transl., edited by TC Lin, CommonWealth, archived from the original on 2023-03-08, Lifestyle:",
          "text": "Paleontology research in Taiwan can be traced back to the 1930s during the Japanese period, when Taihoku Imperial University (today’s NTU) professor Ichiro Hayasaka dug up a rhinoceros fossil from 100,000 years ago in the Tsochen area of Tainan, later dubbed the “Hayasaka Rhino.”",
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        "Alternative form of Zuojhen"
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          "ref": "1995, Michael Day, “Hong Kong, December 1991”, in Fight for the Tiger: One Man's Fight to Save the Wild Tiger from Extinction, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 262–263:",
          "text": "I was in the field and had a lead to run down, and so for the next few days I stationed myself at the Redhill Hotel in Tainan and searched.\nI found more orangutans, clouded leopards, scarlet macaws and abundant domestic species being secretly traded and butchered, recording it all on hidden cameras. But no tiger slaughter. I found another farm just outside the town of Hsinhua and that led me to the village of Tsochen and then on a wild-goose chase across the county to a place called Chiali. Some new American friends from Tainan who invariably came along with me to translate began to think I was completely nuts.",
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          "ref": "2000, Chien-chao Hung, “Introduction”, in A history of Taiwan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "Human fossils were found in caves near Changpin in southeast Taiwan and at Tsochen near Tainan on the southwest coast of the island in the 1960s.",
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          "ref": "2005, Jonathan Manthorpe, “Leaf on the Waves”, in Forbidden Nation, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "In the 1960s human remains, pottery, and stone tools were found in caves in southern Taiwan at Changpin in the far southeast and at Tsochen near Tainan on the southern west coast.",
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          "ref": "2005 June 14, “Floods kill three, destroy crops”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2005-06-15, Front Page, page 1:",
          "text": "A mudslide buried alive a 65-year-old woman at a mountainous village in Tsochen in the southern county of Tainan earlier yesterday, while a man in the southern county of Pingtung was electrocuted, police said.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 September 1, “Museum from Another Era”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 2022-10-06:",
          "text": "Visitors to NTM also can see the fossilized remains, including large fossilized skeletons, of various species of animals and plants, as well as mineral samples. Among other significant relics are fragments of human skulls unearthed in the early 1970s in Tainan County's Tsochen (Zuojhen) Township.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:",
          "text": "In the town of Yujing our route connects with Provincial Highway 20, which you can continue on to reach Tainan city. However, when you pass through Tsochen (左鎭; Zuǒzhèn), it’s worth heading out to Mt Tsao Moon World (草山月世界; Cǎoshān Yuè Shìjiè), a grimly picturesque landscape of barren eroded cliffs and pointy crags.",
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          "ref": "2015, Paul van der Grijp, “The gift of Tsochen Man: private donations to national museums in Taiwan”, in Museum and Society, volume 13, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-24, page 284:",
          "text": "For many years, that collector had been searching for fossils around the river bed of the Tsailiao, which flows through Tsochen city in the Tainan district.",
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          "ref": "2019, Xiaobing Li, “Prehistory and Aboriginal Cultures to 1100”, in The History of Taiwan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:",
          "text": "During 1971-1972, several Taiwanese scholars and a Japanese biologist discovered human remains, including three cranial fragments and a tooth, in Tsochen (Zuozhen), Tainan County.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2019 July 20, Ai Kawamura et al., “The earliest fossil record of the bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) from the early Middle Pleistocene of Taiwan with discussion on the Quaternary history of the species”, in Quaternary International, volume 523, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-08:",
          "text": "Tsailiao is a small village in the Tsochen District of Tainan City, Taiwan (Fig. 1). Tsailiao and its surroundings are well known among researchers who study the Quaternary geology and paleontology of Taiwan because they have yielded abundant and diverse mammalian fossils of Pleistocene age.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2023 February 25, Jo Wen Li, “The young professor who discovered a dinosaur fossil in Taiwan”, in David Toman, transl., edited by TC Lin, CommonWealth, archived from the original on 2023-03-08, Lifestyle:",
          "text": "Paleontology research in Taiwan can be traced back to the 1930s during the Japanese period, when Taihoku Imperial University (today’s NTU) professor Ichiro Hayasaka dug up a rhinoceros fossil from 100,000 years ago in the Tsochen area of Tainan, later dubbed the “Hayasaka Rhino.”",
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