Definition of "Chiaotou"

The sweet success story told about the past of Taiwan's earliest sugarland—Chiaotou in Kaohsiung County—had an audience of about ten thousand on May 1st when the National Festival of Culture and Arts opened in the compound of the Taiwan Sugar […]

1996, Taiwan Sugar‎, numbers 41-43, page 29

A "blackhead" steams through fields of sugar cane near Chiaotou, Kaohsiung County, in March 1978.

2001, Taipei Review‎, volume 51, page 55

Third-tier activists view themselves as the DPP's fundamental vote-gathering mechanism, as these statements from third-tier leaders, interviewed in June 1999, attest: […] • "This level—we call it the third level—is where the electoral work actually happens." (Chiaotou, Kaohsiung County)

2001, Shelley Rigger, “Organization”, in rom Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party‎, Lynne Rienner Publishers, page 63

This park is the first large-scale public park in Taiwan. It is located on the border of Nantzu District in Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou village, Kaohsiung County and this park measures 95 hectares.

2003, An Outline of Interior Affairs, Republic of China, 2003‎, page 114

II.Range and AreaIt mainly bases on Chingpu Farm of Taiwan Sugar Corp., and the area is 95 hectares or so. The administration regions include Nanzih Dist. of Kaohsiung City and Chiaotou of Kaohsiung County.

2013 September 2, “Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park”, in Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2022

A museum for Yu Chen Yueh-ying (余陳月瑛), commonly called the “Taiwanese Matsu” (台灣媽祖婆), was officially opened at the Yu family residence in Kaohsiung’s Chiaotou District (橋頭) on Thursday.

2015 September 12, Fu-nan Su, Jake Chung, “Yu Chen museum open to public”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 30 September 2015, Taiwan News, page 5‎

The Chiaotou Incident and the Kaohsiung Incident were watershed events for Taiwan’s road to democratization.

2021 February 28, 0:47 from the start, in President Tsai marks 228 Incident in Kaohsiung‎, spoken by Tsai Ing-wen, Formosa Television, archived from the original on 27 November 2021