Fuhkien

English Etymology From the en zh-postal - of Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn - 福建, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 Proper noun en dated en Fujian. en 1867 Wm. Fred. Mayers; N. B. Dennys; Chas. King The Treaty Ports of China and Japan London Trübner and Co. 244 https://books.google.com/books?id=zH22DuWBGJoC In 1624, the Dutch established themselves on Fischer's I., one of the Pescadore group, in order to control the coast trade of Fuhkien province. en 1898 Inland Communications in China Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1007-3167 823513257 28 145 https://books.google.com/books?id=qaNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145 The main trade route of South-eastern Chehkiang connects Foochow, the capital of Fuhkien, with Ningpo, which has direct communications by water (a few portages expected) with the Grand Canal and Peking. References Further reading