Fu-chien

Fuchien English thumb|MJIB Fuchien Province Field Office Etymology From en cmn 福建 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Fu²-chien⁴.Fujian, Wade-Giles romanization Fu-chien, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 478 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/478/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Fu-chien (Fujian) zh 福建 Proper noun 1 1 en Fujian. en 1966 w:Luce Boulnois The Silk Road https://archive.org/details/silkroad0000boul/ Dennis Chamberlin London w:George Allen & Unwin 909840062 5982396M 208 https://archive.org/details/silkroad0000boul/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'. en 1974 D. J. Dwyer China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/ w:Longman 0-582-48076-0 73-87225 963067253 5438328M 224 https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/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]. en https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA361588/ 1998 Taiwan w:The World Factbook 0277-1527 7390695 522 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA361588/page/n549/ 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); en 1999 Linda A. Walton Academies and Society in Southern Sung China https://archive.org/details/academiessociety0000walt/ Honolulu w:University of Hawaiʻi Press 0-8248-1962-4 98042955 246016722 37 https://archive.org/details/academiessociety0000walt/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. en 2010 w:Jay Lake Pinion https://archive.org/details/pinion00lake/ w:Tor Books 978-0-7653-2186-2 2009040730 861394816 290 https://archive.org/details/pinion00lake/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." en 2016/04/15 History https://web.archive.org/web/20220629014239/https://www.kmc.moj.gov.tw/292089/292378/292381/566431/post 29 June 2022 zh:福建金門地方檢察署<t:Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office> Kinmen County used to belong to Tungan County of Fuchien Province. on en Translations Fujian References Further reading en 1952 Fukien or Fu-chien Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 649 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/649/ 2