Fu-ch'ing

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See also: Fuching

English

Map including 福清 FU-CH'ING (FUTSING) (Walled) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 福清 (Fúqīng), Wade–Giles romanization: Fu²-chʻing¹.

Proper noun

Fu-ch'ing

  1. Alternative form of Fuqing
    • 1880, Herbert Giles (translator), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., Vol. I, page 300
      So he bade good-by to Mr. Chiang, and set off for Fokien, his patron providing him with clothes and shoes, and the people of the place making up a subscription for him. On the road he met two traders in cotton cloth who were going to Fu-chʻing, and he joined their party; but they had not travelled many stages before these men found out that he had money, and taking him to a lonely spot, bound him hand and foot and made off with all he had.
    • 1935, The Twin Pagodas of Zayton, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 12:
      The niche-figures and reliefs of the Jui-yun Pagoda at Fu-ch'ing date from the end of the Ming dynasty, as the tower was constructed between 1607 and 1615;⁴¹ these sculptures are amongst the best in the province. The bas-reliefs of Fu-ch'ing, some of which are full of expression (pl. 64a, b), point to a later period of Chinese plastic art, that of the porcelain statuettes produced at Tê-hua 德化 near Ch'uan-chou, and of the wood carvings of Fu-chou, which have flourished from the Ming era up to the present day.
    • 1988, Charles E. Ronan, Bonnie B. C. Oh, editors, East Meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773, Chicago: Loyola University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 179:
      Yeh was born in 1562, the son of a minor scholar-official from Fu-chʻing, a coastal county within the prefecture of Foochow.¹³
    • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:
      In most coastal prefectures, the ratio of fishermen was higher: 7 percent of the population in Ch'uan-chou and in Hsing-hua; 5 percent in Foochow (a large part of which was in Fu-ch'ing), but (for reasons that are not clear) not so in Fu-ning or Chang-chou prefectures.

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