Tan-shui

Tan-shui

Taiwan
also spelled  Tamshui, or Tamsui 

      coastal chen (town) in western T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan. It is located on the northern bank of the Tan-shui River, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Taipei.

      Tan-shui is the oldest of the port settlements in northern Taiwan. The area was occupied by the Spanish in the 1620s after they had seized Chi-lung farther east. In 1642 the Spanish were driven out by the Dutch, and in 1662 the Dutch in their turn were expelled by Koxinga (Cheng Ch'eng-kung (Zheng Chenggong)), a man of mixed Chinese Japanese ancestry who ruled the island for a time; the port was restored to Chinese control in 1683.

      In the early 18th century, trade began with the interior of the island, and strong links were built up with the merchant communities in Fu-chou (Fuzhou) and Ch'üan-chou (Quanzhou) in Fukien (Fujian) sheng (province) on the Chinese mainland. In 1860 the port was opened to foreign trade as a treaty port. For the next few years Tan-shui became a centre of the growing Taiwan tea industry, founded by settlers from Fukien. This tea was shipped to Fu-chou and thence to Europe; by the end of the 19th century, Fu-chou was shipping more tea from Tan-shui than from Fukien itself.

      Occupied by the French during the Sino-French War of 1883–85, Tan-shui was further developed in the late 1880s, when a shipping route was opened from Tan-shui to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Upon the completion of the railway line to the port of Chi-lung, however, and the increasingly serious silting of the Tan-shui estuary, the port declined. It is now a seaside resort for nearby Taipei. Pop. (2004 est.) 126,132.

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