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Fuching
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Fu-ch'ing
English
Etymology
From en cmn - 福清, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Fu²-chʻing¹.
Pronunciation
en /ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Proper noun
en Fuqing.
en July 17, 1929 w:Glover Morrill Allen Carnivora From the Asiatic Expeditions Collected Papers of G.M. Allen 1927-1929 w:American Museum Novitates https://books.google.com/books?id=pIguAAAAIAAJ 1 360 215142164 7 The average condylobasal length of four adult males from Fuching, Fukien, is 135.1 mm., of four females 127.8 mm.
en 14 March 1972 27 February 1972 Fukien Marine Products Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 51 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043528929&seq=501 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Foochow Fukien Provincial Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: East Region C 9 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043528929&seq=529 In 1971, Fuching County gathered 210,000 piculs of clams and kelp.
en 1995 w:Sterling Seagrave Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese https://archive.org/details/lordsofriminvisi00seag/ New York w:G. P. Putnam's Sons 0-399-14011-5 94-44555 777312564 286 https://archive.org/details/lordsofriminvisi00seag/page/286/ Indonesia's Liem Sioe Liong became a major developer in Fukien. His efforts are centered on Fuching, his hometown just south of Foochow. Even before Indonesia and China normalized relations in 1990, Liem was pouring money into Fuching, earmarking $89 million to build a ten-mile highway, dozens of sprawling apartment blocks, office buildings and factories, and a marble-lobbied three-star hotel.
en 2004 Tony Thompson Gangs: A Journey into the Heart of the British underworld https://archive.org/details/gangsjourneyinto0000thom/ w:Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-83053-0 934934720 325 https://archive.org/details/gangsjourneyinto0000thom/page/325/ Changle and nearby Fuching are, the locals say, ‘widows’ villages’, but such is the admiration given to those who send money back from abroad that poverty is now considered shameful, a disgrace.
Translations
Fuqing