Fu-ch'ing

Fuching English thumb|Map including zh 福清 FU-CH'ING (FUTSING) (Walled) (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From en cmn 福清, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Fu²-chʻing¹. Pronunciation en /ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/ Proper noun 1 1 en Fuqing. 1880, Herbert Giles (translator), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., Vol. I, page 300 So he bade good-by to Mr. Chiang, and set off for Fokien, his patron providing him with clothes and shoes, and the people of the place making up a subscription for him. On the road he met two traders in cotton cloth who were going to Fu-chʻing, and he joined their party; but they had not travelled many stages before these men found out that he had money, and taking him to a lonely spot, bound him hand and foot and made off with all he had. en 1935 The Twin Pagodas of Zayton https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127766/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 909718570 12 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127766/page/n15/ The niche-figures and reliefs of the Jui-yun Pagoda at Fu-ch'ing date from the end of the Ming dynasty, as the tower was constructed between 1607 and 1615;⁴¹ these sculptures are amongst the best in the province. The bas-reliefs of Fu-ch'ing, some of which are full of expression (pl. 64a, b), point to a later period of Chinese plastic art, that of the porcelain statuettes produced at Tê-hua zh 德化 near Ch'uan-chou, and of the wood carvings of Fu-chou, which have flourished from the Ming era up to the present day. en 1988 Charles E. Ronan; Bonnie B. C. Oh East Meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773 https://archive.org/details/eastmeetswestjes0000unse/ Chicago w:Loyola University Press 0-8294-0572-0 87-2704 906492034 179 https://archive.org/details/eastmeetswestjes0000unse/page/179/ Yeh was born in 1562, the son of a minor scholar-official from Fu-chʻing, a coastal county within the prefecture of Foochow.¹³ en https://archive.org/details/taiwannewhistory0000unse/ 1999 Taiwan: A New History Murray A. Rubinstein w:M.E. Sharpe 1-56324-816-6 1087897007 48 https://archive.org/details/taiwannewhistory0000unse/page/48/ In most coastal prefectures, the ratio of fishermen was higher: 7 percent of the population in Ch'uan-chou and in Hsing-hua; 5 percent in Foochow (a large part of which was in Fu-ch'ing), but (for reasons that are not clear) not so in Fu-ning or Chang-chou prefectures. Translations Fuqing