Hokchiang

English Etymology From en cdo - 福清 Hók-chiăng. Pronunciation hōkʹchyängʹen 1952 Futsing or Fu-ch’ing Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 652 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/652/ 3 Fukienese Hokkiang (hōkʹchyängʹ) Proper noun en Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name. en 1908 Frank L. Norris China https://archive.org/details/norrischina00norruoft/ A. R. Mowbray & Co. 2077142 87 https://archive.org/details/norrischina00norruoft/page/87/ For the same year (1878) had witnessed a remarkable development at Hokchiang, to the south of Fuhchow, as well as amongst the places to the north of that city. en 1912 S. Moore Sites Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East https://archive.org/details/nathansitesepico0000site/ w:Fleming H. Revell Company 3408827 123 https://archive.org/details/nathansitesepico0000site/page/123/ On a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun. en 1948 Walter N. Lacy A Hundred Years of China Methodism https://archive.org/details/hundredyearsofch0000lacy_q7e2/ Abingdon-Cokesbury Press 251163056 311 https://archive.org/details/hundredyearsofch0000lacy_q7e2/page/311/ 1899 Two women opened work for the Methodist Protestant Church in Hunan. The women of the Hokchiang District made a “thank offering.” en 1957 Wade Crawford Barclay The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939 https://archive.org/details/methodistepiscop03barc/ 3 New York Board of Missions of The Methodist Church 1042837507 434 https://archive.org/details/methodistepiscop03barc/page/434/ In 1889 William H. Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed. References