Fu-chien

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See also: Fuchien

English

MJIB Fuchien Province Field Office

Etymology

From Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Fu²-chien⁴.[1][2]

Proper noun

Fu-chien

  1. Alternative form of Fujian
    • 1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:
      We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
    • 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 224:
      When this line was about to be completed, toward the end of 1956, official newspapers reported that henceforth ‘rich iron ore, timber and figs’ produced in Fu-chien could be shipped out for the benefit of other parts of the country .
    • 1998, “Taiwan”, in The World Factbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 522:
      Administrative divisions: since in the past the authorities claimed to be the government of all China, the central administrative divisions include the provinces of Fu-chien (some 20 offshore islands of Fujian Province including Quemoy and Matsu) and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands);
    • 1999, Linda A. Walton, Academies and Society in Southern Sung China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
      While Chu Hsi’s fame in the Southern Sung academy movement rests on his revival of White Deer Grotto in Chiang-hsi, he was most active in founding academies in his adoptive home, Fu-chien. His ancestral home was Wu-yuan County (Hui, Chiang-tung), but he was born, educated, and spent much of his career both in and out of office in Fu-chien.
    • 2010, Jay Lake, Pinion, Tor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 290:
      "You do not care if I am a peasant girl born beneath a harnessed ox in the fields of Fu-chien?"
      "I do not care if you were born in the Forbidden City, of the body of an angel on a couch of ivory." He put down the glasses. "You are aboard my ship without my permission, behaving dreadfully. If you are a divinity, then I will bid you welcome and make the best of my hospitality. If you are an insolent peasant girl from Fu-chien, then I will throw you into the sea and tell you to swim for that distant shore."
    • , archived from the original on 29 June 2022:
      Kinmen County used to belong to Tungan County of Fuchien Province.]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fu-chien.

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References

  1. ^ Fujian, Wade-Giles romanization Fu-chien, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 478:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] Fu-chien (Fujian) 福建

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