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Juguang, Lienchiang


Coordinates: 25°57′50.5″N 119°57′32.9″E / 25.964028°N 119.959139°E / 25.964028; 119.959139

Juguang Township (Chinese: 莒光鄉; pinyin: Jǔguāng Xiāng; Wade–Giles: Chü³-kuang²; Foochow Romanized: Gṳ̄-guŏng-hiŏng), also spelled Chukuang, is a rural township of Lienchiang County, Republic of China. Juguang Township includes two major Matsu islands -- Dongju Island (東莒 "East Ju"; Dĕ̤ng-gṳ̄) and Xiju Island (西莒 "West Ju"; Să̤-gṳ̄) -- and some islets. Neither Dongju nor Xiju has an island-wide administrative level.

Administratively the islands are part of the Lienchiang County. Both islands have villages as the first-level division within:

Dongju and Xiju Islands were previously named Dongquan (東犬; Dĕ̤ng-kēng) and Xiquan (西犬; Să̤-kēng) Islands, meaning "Eastern Dog" and "Western Dog" respectively. They have also been called the Baiquan Islands (白犬島; Băh-kēng-dō̤) or Baiken Islands (白肯島).

They were renamed from a quote of a speech by Chiang Kai-shek, "forget not that you're in Ju" (毋忘在莒; Ù uông câi Gṳ̄). It refers to the City of Ju, where the king of Qi prepared a counterattack that retook his country from the State of Yan. This is an analogy of Matsu and Taiwan as bases of the Republic of China (ROC) to regenerate itself and one day recover mainland China from the Chinese communist. This renaming, of course, is not recognized by PRC, which keep their original names.


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