Toufen (

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...

PFS: ''Thèu-fun''; Hokkien POJ: ''Thâu-hūn'') is a county-administered city in northern

Miaoli County Miaoli County (Mandarin Pinyin: ''miáo lì xiàn''; Hakka PFS: ''Mèu-li̍t-yen''; Hokkien POJ: ''Biâu-le̍k-koān'' or ''Miâu-le̍k-koān'') is a county in western Taiwan. Miaoli is adjacent with Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City to the nort ...

, Taiwan. Its city centre forms a continuous urban area with

Zhunan Zhunan Township is an urban township in northern Miaoli County, Taiwan. Its city centre forms a continuous urban area with Toufen. Name Literally, ''Zhúnán'' () means "bamboo south" but in this context, ''zhú'' is short for "Hsinchu". Th ...

History

In 2007, there was a revitalization project for the community houses in the city which was funded by Council of Cultural Affairs and private sectors which turned the buildings into a museum of chronicling life in the 1950s and 1960s. On 5 October 2015, Toufen was upgraded from an

urban township An urban township is a designation of a unit of local government in several countries. United States The term is called ''urban township'' Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio and urban town in Wisconsin. Generally, an urban township is afforded more loca ...

to a county-administered city.

Geography

Toufen has an area of . Surrounding the city are Miaoli County's

, Zaoqiao and

Sanwan Sanwan Township is a rural township in northern Miaoli County, Taiwan. It lies between the Taiwan Strait on the west and mountains on the east. Geography * Area: * Population: 6,864 (January 2017) Administrative divisions The township comp ...

townships to the northwest/west, southwest and southeast, respectively, and

Hsinchu County Hsinchu County (Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; with a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the county capital, where ...

to the northeast and east. As of January 2017, its total population was estimated at 103,162, including 52,055 males and 51,107 females.

Administrative divisions

The city comprises 32 villages: Chenggong, Douhuan, Gexing, Guangxing, Heping, Houzhuang, Jianguo, Jianshan, Jianxia, Lankeng, Liutung, Luzhu, Minquan, Minsheng, Minzu, Pantao, Renai, Shangpu, Shangxing, Shanhu, Shanxia, Tianliao, Tongzhuang, Toufen, Tuniu, Wenhua, Xiaxing, Xinglong, Xinhua, Xinyi, Zhongxiao and Zijiang.

Tourist attractions

Toufen Backyard Garden Toufen (Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Si ...

Shang Shun Mall Shang Shun Mall () is a shopping mall complex in Toufen, Miaoli County, Taiwan that opened in May 2015. It is the first and largest shopping mall in Miaoli County. The main core stores of the mall include Studio A, Uniqlo, Daiso, Xiaomi and var ...

* Luzhunan Historical House * Toufen Jianguo Night Market

Transportation

Toufen is accessible by

Zhunan Station Zhunan () is a railway station in Miaoli County, Taiwan served by Taiwan Railways. It lies at the northern junction of the Mountain and Coast lines of the West Coast line. Overview The station has three island platforms. Although it is a firs ...

of the Taiwan Railways Administration located in the neighboring Zhunan Township. The Taiwan High Speed Rail passes through the central part of the city, but no station is currently planned. Toufen is also served by Freeway 1, Provincial Highways 1, 1B, 3, 13, 13A, and County Routes 124, 124A, and 124C.

Notable natives

Hsieh Chin-ting Hsieh Chin-ting (; 1936–2017) was a Taiwanese judge and politician. Hsieh was born in 1936 to a family of farmers in Tōfun, Chikunan, Shinchiku Prefecture of Japanese Taiwan, which later became known as Shuiliugong, a division of Toufen, Miao ...

, Magistrate of

(1981–1989) * Hsu Yao-chang, Magistrate of Miaoli County

References

External links

* {{Cities in Taiwan