Foshan

Fóshān Fo-shan English Alternative forms en Fo-shan from French obsolete en Fo-chan Etymology From en cmn 佛山. Pronunciation fō′shän′Foshan geographical name Fo·​shan ˈfō-ˈshän variants or formerly Fatshan ˈfät-ˈshän fŭ′shän′Foshan 632 3 en æn 2 en Fo shan Proper noun en large prefecture-level city p/Guangdong in southeast c/China. en https://archive.org/details/chinesegeneral01davi/ 1836 The Chinese : A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants 1 w:John Francis Davis New-York w:Harper & Brothers 38 https://archive.org/details/chinesegeneral01davi/page/38/ At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place. en 1857 July-December w:Thomas De Quincey Hints Towards an Appreciation of the Coming War in China. Titan A Monthly Magazine https://archive.org/details/titanamonthlyma00goog/ XXV 984467681 69 https://archive.org/details/titanamonthlyma00goog/page/69/ 1 Foshan is a town in the neighbourhood of Canton, and happened to be the scene of Colonel Chesney's ill usage. en May 20, 1939 May 19, 1939 Chinese Attacks Cost Japanese 24 Planes and 3 Warships w:Daily Worker https://archive.org/details/per_daily-worker_daily-worker_1939-05-20_16_120/ New York XVI 120 CHUNGKING, China 2 https://archive.org/details/per_daily-worker_daily-worker_1939-05-20_16_120/page/n1/ 5 At Foshan, south of Canton, 147 Japanese soldiers have died of cholera. en 07 August 2020 Sophie Stuber Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution https://web.archive.org/web/20200824044546/https://observers.france24.com/en/20200807-video-uighur-handcuffed-quarantine-centre 24 August 2020 w:France 24 Ghappar is Uighur, a Muslim minority group that has been the target of discrimination and oppression by Chinese officials in recent years. In January 2020, officials took Ghappar from his home in the southern city of Foshan to a police station in Kucha, Xinjiang. He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video. en June 6, 2022 ‘Fake’ Aluminum Stocks Put Perils of China’s Commodities Funding in Spotlight w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230318135247/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/fake-aluminum-stocks-put-perils-of-chinas-commodities-funding-in-spotlight/2022/06/05/af1ebfaa-e52b-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html 18 March 2023 0190-8286 2269358 Energy This time, metals markets are fixated on an incident in the southern province of Guangdong, in which several traders claim they were duped into providing credit against fictitious quantities of aluminum. More than 500 million yuan ($75 million) may have been loaned, backed by stockpiles of the metal stored in a warehouse in the city of Foshan that turned out to be worth significantly less than that. en Synonyms from Cantonese en Fatshan, en Fat Shan Translations a city of China Arabic: ar فُوشَان m fušān Chinese: Cantonese: yue 佛山 fat6 saan1 Mandarin: cmn 佛山 Fóshān Georgian: ka ფოშანი Japanese: ja 仏山 ぶつざん, Butsuzan Korean: ko 포산 Posan, ko ^불산(佛山) Macedonian: mk Фошан m Marathi: mr फोशान n Russian: ru Фоша́нь m Vietnamese: vi Phật Sơn References Further reading en 2008 Foshan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1262 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1262/ 1 en 2-syllable words