Chapters: Zhonghe, Taiwan, Xinzhuang, Taiwan, Xindian, Yonghe, Taiwan, Xizhi, Sanchong, Tucheng, Luzhou, Taiwan, Shulin, Banqiao, Taiwan, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Zhonghe (Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin: Zh nghe Shi; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhonghe Shih: Tiong-ho Chh ), historically spelled Chung-Ho, is a county-controlled city in Taipei County in rthern Taiwan (ROC). Zhonghe is a burgeoning satellite city of Taipei. On 25 December 2010, the entire county will become Xinbei City, and Zhonghe City will become Zhonghe District. Zhonghe lies just south-west of Taipei City and shares borders with Banqiao, Taipei, Xindian, Tucheng and Yonghe. The average annual temperature is 21.7 C and the precipitation averages 2,111mm per year. The Pacific typhoon season occurs between June and October. The present-day area of Zhonghe City was originally settled by aboriginal tribes. During conflict between the colonial forces of the Dutch and the Spanish, the area is recorded by the Dutch as Chiron, from the name of one of the tribes living there. This name is preserved in on of the constituent villages of the city, called Xiulang Li ( ), and the bridge which connects Zhonghe to Xindian City. The area was subsequently settled by Han migrants from Fujian but remained relatively unimportant until the end of the Second World War. In 1946 the population of the area of present-day Zhonghe and Yonghe was 30,000 and it was classified as a Xiang (; rural township). Due to rapid population growth Yonghe was separated from Zhonghe in 1958. Subsequently on January 1, 1979 Zhonghe was upgraded to county-controlled city status after reaching a population of 170,000. Zhonghe is divided into 93 l (; villages), which are further subdivided into lin (; neighbourhoods), of ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1210400