Yushan Chinese characters, both traditional and simplified: 玉山, pinyin Yu Shan (yù, or actually yǜ (IPA [ỳ]) ‘jade’, shan ‘mountain’; also known as Jade Mountain or Mount Yu) is the highest mountain in Taiwan and the fourth highest mountain on an island. Earlier, at the times when few Taiwanese could speak English, it was known among the expats, mostly missionaries, as Mt. Morrison, thought to have been named so in honor of the 19th century missi...
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Yushan Chinese characters, both traditional and simplified: 玉山, pinyin Yu Shan (yù, or actually yǜ (IPA [ỳ]) ‘jade’, shan ‘mountain’; also known as Jade Mountain or Mount Yu) is the highest mountain in Taiwan and the fourth highest mountain on an island. Earlier, at the times when few Taiwanese could speak English, it was known among the expats, mostly missionaries, as Mt. Morrison, thought to have been named so in honor of the 19th century missionary Robert Morrison. After the Taiwanese have begun to assert themselves in the English language discourse on the island, the mountain has been referred to almost exclusively as Yu Shan.
In the winter, Yushan is often capped with thick snow which makes the entire peak shine like stainless jade, hence its name. On July 21, 2009. Yushan was elected one of 28 finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature voting campaign. It even had held the top position in the “Mountains and Volcanos” category on the list of first round voting of the 77 nominees...
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