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Futsing
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English
thumb|Map including zh 福清 FU-CH'ING (FUTSING) (Walled) (Army Map Service AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 福清 Fúqīng.
Pronunciation
en /ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Proper noun
en Fuqing.
en February 9, 1899 23 January 1899 FUTSINGHSIEN AND HAISHAN ISLAND. North-China Herald North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1899.02.09/ LXII 1645 247 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1899.02.09/page/247/ 1 The people of Futsing are noted for their independent spirit. As stated in my last they were among the last to submit to the Manchus and wear the queue.
en April 24, 1915 China Medical Missionary Association https://archive.org/details/lancet1915unse_0/page/843/ w:The Lancet 0140-6736 01755507 872 https://archive.org/details/lancet1915unse_0/page/872/ Among other papers we may mention the following. Obstetrical Experience in Futsing City, by Dr. Mabel C. Poulter, who gave an appalling account of native methods in vogue, and showed the very good results from the treatment in hospital.
en 1918 w:Roy Chapman Andrews; Yvette Borup Andrews Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China https://books.google.com/books?id=KbrHDwAAQBAJ 1176058371 For many years before Mr. Caldwell went to Yen-ping he had been stationed at the city of Futsing, about thirty miles from Foochow.
en 1948 Walter N. Lacy A Hundred Years of China Methodism https://archive.org/details/hundredyearsofch0000lacy_q7e2/ Abingdon-Cokesbury Press 251163056 159 https://archive.org/details/hundredyearsofch0000lacy_q7e2/page/159/ At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.
en 1953 John C. Caldwell China Coast Family https://archive.org/details/chinacoastfamily0000unse/ https://archive.org/details/chinacoastfamily012118mbp/ Chicago w:Henry Regnery Company 53-9623 1199230 185 https://archive.org/details/chinacoastfamily0000unse/page/185/ In a few months Foochow was cut off from Futsing by the Japanese and by bandits. The blockade was tightened, and Father was stranded in Shanghai for weeks. He finally caught a British ship to Amoy and walked the hundred and fifty miles north to Futsing.
en 1955 John C. Caldwell Still the Rice Grows Green https://archive.org/details/stillricegrowsgr00cald/ Chicago w:Henry Regnery Company 55-6848 482283347 55 https://archive.org/details/stillricegrowsgr00cald/page/55/ Captain Song is one of a colony of 275 guerrilla families form the Futsing region, just settled on Kinmen.
en 2006 Patricia D. Netzley The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena https://archive.org/details/greenhavenencycl0000netz_l7d2/ w:Thomson Gale 0-7377-3214-8 2005022037 61247136 62 https://archive.org/details/greenhavenencycl0000netz_l7d2/page/62/ In 1910 Harry R. Caldwell, a hunter visiting the Futsing region of China, thought he saw a tiger whose stripes were blue rather than black, and beginning in the 1920s several other people reported seeing such an animal in other parts of China as well.
Derived terms
en Futsing wolf snake
Descendants
Translingual: Lycodon futsingensis species
Further reading
en 1952 Futsing or Fu-ch’ing Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 652 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/652/ 3
Anagrams
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