"Lu-kang" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1976, Wang Chen-ho, “An Oxcart for the Dowry”, in Jon Jackson, transl., edited by Joseph S. M. Lau, Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970, New York: Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90",
          "text": "At the same time, Chien declared that he must go back to Lu-kang to visit, then on to Taipei for a new supply of clothes.",
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          "text": "The ROC central government approved DuPont’s application to build an agricultural pesticide plant in the Chang-ping Industrial Zone near Lu-kang in August, 1985. However, the residents of Lu-kang and its nearby villages feared that the construction of a DuPont plant would definitely pollute local water and destroy the area’s seashore beauty and fishery. As one of the oldest communities in Taiwan, Lu-kang has a tremendous collection of cultural and historical treasures.",
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          "text": "South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.",
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          "text": "Stan Shih was born on 8 December 1944 in the countryside village of Lu-Kang, located on the western coast of central Taiwan.]",
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