Fu-chien

See also: Fuchien

English

MJIB Fuchien Province Field Office

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Fu-chien

  1. Alternative form of Fujian
    • 1966, Luce Boulnois, Dennis Chamberlin, transl., The Silk Road, London: George Allen & Unwin, OCLC 909840062, OL 5982396M, 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 73-87225, OCLC 963067253, OL 5438328M, 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 [29].
    • 1998, “Taiwan”, in The World Factbook, ISSN 0277-1527, OCLC 7390695, 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, Walton, Linda A., Academies and Society in Southern Sung China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98042955, OCLC 246016722, 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 2009040730, OCLC 861394816, 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."
    • [2016 April 15, “History”, in Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office (福建金門地方檢察署), 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.

Translations

References

  1. Fujian, Wade-Giles romanization Fu-chien, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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