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English
Etymology
From Eastern Min 福清 (Hók-chiăng).
Proper noun
Hokchiang
- Synonym of Fuqing
1908, Frank L. Norris, China, A. R. Mowbray & Co., →OCLC, page 87:For the same year (1878) had witnessed a remarkable development at Hokchiang, to the south of Fuhchow, as well as amongst the places to the north of that city.
1912, S. Moore Sites, Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 123:On a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun.
1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 311:1899 Two women opened work for the Methodist Protestant Church in Hunan. The women of the Hokchiang District made a “thank offering.”
1957, Wade Crawford Barclay, The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939, volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 434:In 1889 William H. Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed.