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Putien
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P'u-t'ien
English
Etymology
From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn - for 莆田, Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻu²-tʻien².
Proper noun
en county c/Taiwan A defunct county of Taiwan, officially designated as the county to which Wuqiu belongs, although that township is administered by Kinmen County.
en 2013-12 金門水獺分布變遷與族群生態研究(1/3) 金門國家公園管理處 https://web.archive.org/web/20261025132418/https://ws.moi.gov.tw/Download.ashx?n=NjYucGRm&u=LzAwMS9VcGxvYWQvT2xkRmlsZV9LTU5QL3Jlc291cmNlL2NvbnNlcnZpY2F0aW9uLzY2LnBkZg%3D%3D https://ws.moi.gov.tw/Download.ashx?n=NjYucGRm&u=LzAwMS9VcGxvYWQvT2xkRmlsZV9LTU5QL3Jlc291cmNlL2NvbnNlcnZpY2F0aW9uLzY2LnBkZg%3D%3D 17 (pdf 36 of 81) 莆田縣烏坵鄉(金門縣政府代管)Wuciou,Putian County(Kinmen County Hall Factor )
en 2017-12-08 kinmen awareness https://web.archive.org/web/20180527023057/https://www.kinmen.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=22D15C7FFDA4350D https://www.kinmen.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=22D15C7FFDA4350D Kinmen County Government IV. Administration System Kinmen County Government helps administer all level agencies in two villages of Wuquiu Township in Futian County of Fujian Province
en Fujian Province 360Cities Wuchiu Island (an Putian County, Kinmen County hosting), the actual effective control by the Taiwan authorities.
en c. 2020 Wuqiu Township https://web.archive.org/web/20200810072636/https://www.kinmen.gov.tw/en/News_Content.aspx?n=72CD566167A6DD62&sms=E4648578D797B924&s=8DA1172ABF6FACA2 10 August 2020 Kinmen County Government Located off the territorial waters from Putien County of Fujian Providence, Wuchiou Township consists of two villages, namely, Dachiou and Xiaochiou, with a total area of roughly 2.6 square kilometers.Most of the residents had immigrated from Putien and speak Xinghua dialect and Chinese.
en ElectricalPeninsula Comment on “The China-Taiwan Conflict” https://web.archive.org/web/20220401204304/https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/tu0mni/comment/i313b86/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/tu0mni/comment/i313b86/ Reddit r/MapPorn 2026-10-25 Non-Taiwan places controled by ROC now based on Pre-1949 administration:Fujian: Kinmen County, Matsu Islands(belonged to Lianjiang County and Luoyuan County), Wuqiu Islands(belonged to Putian County)
en Putian.
en https://archive.org/details/stillthericegrow002137mbp/ 1908 w:Homer Lea The Vermilion Pencil New York McClure Company 132 https://archive.org/details/vermilionpencilr00leahiala/page/132/ The Tien Tu Hin was founded about 1674, in the Province of Fokien, in the Putien District of the Fuchin Prefecture.
en 1954 Leslie Theodore Lyall Leslie T. Lyall A Biography of John Sung https://archive.org/details/biographyofjohns00lyal/ Armour Publishing Pte Ltd 2004 981-4138-19-3 56816804 4 https://archive.org/details/biographyofjohns00lyal/page/4/ Hinghwa in Putien County had always been a great stronghold of Buddhism, and the first challenge to the powers of darkness there was made in 1862.
en 1955 John C. Caldwell Still the Rice Grows Green https://archive.org/details/stillthericegrow002137mbp/ w:Henry Regnery Company 55-6848 482283347 177 https://archive.org/details/stillthericegrow002137mbp/page/n189/ But still two questions remain. Can Nationalist China take a bridgehead without American aid? And once taken, what happens next? Of what good will a small piece of land around Foochow, or Amoy, or Putien be to Free China?
en November 16, 1975 L. Chen Maoist showcase of big troubles https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-11-16_16_45/ Free China Weekly XVI 45 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-11-16_16_45/page/n2/ Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.
en 1978 August Chia-shu Wang The Artcraft of Weaving w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1978-08/ Peking w:China Welfare Institute XXVII 8 0009-4447 1554324 38 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1978-08/page/n39/ 3 Fukien bamboo ware attracts with clever combinations of natural and painted colors and is resistant to worms and mildew. The products from Putien county have such novel designs as the panda, tropical fish and patterns copied from paintings on silk excavated from the famous 2,000-year-old tomb at Mawangtui in Hunan province.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_fruit-varieties-journal_1980-01_34_1/ January 1980 A 1,200 Year-Old Litchi Tree Flourishes in the People's Republic of China Tieng Sang Fruit Varieties Journal 34 1 23 A litchi tree planted in the 8th century in Putien county, Fukien province, east China, is still luxuriant and produces fruit every year.
en https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780141009940/ 1996 0-141-00994-2 The River at the Centre of the World Simon Winchester w:Penguin Books 270 Statistics on the movement of umbrellas in Canton, vermicelli from Chinchew, animal tallow from Chinghai and coal dust from Putien were all treated with the same care and attention to detail as was vast 'Treasure, Imported and Exported'
en 2008 Shouyi Bai The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan: the Later Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism An Outline History of China, Revised Edition zh 中国通史纲要(修订本) https://archive.org/details/outlinehistoryof0000unse_z3r5/ 1st Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 978-7-119-05296-0 465165580 278 https://archive.org/details/outlinehistoryof0000unse_z3r5/page/278/ A typical example was the Mulan Dyke in Xinghua and Putien of Fujian Province, a multipurpose project for water diversion, storage, irrigation, and drainage.
en 2009/08/31 zh:金門縣政府 Kinmen's Matsu Pilgrimage Mission Takes Direct Course to Maizhou for Religious Interchange zh 金門媽祖朝聖團直航湄洲宗教交流(上) https://web.archive.org/web/20190829142141/https://www.kmdn.gov.tw/1117/1271/1278/171830/ 29 August 2019 https://www.kmdn.gov.tw/1117/1271/1278/171830/ w:Kinmen Daily News zh:英文新聞 On April 10 the "Meizhou Matsu Pilgrimage(1) Mission" organized by representatives from different sectors of Kinmen took a direct course to Meizhou, beginning a three-day-two-night religious exchange that included Putien and Quanzhou.
en 2009/09/07 zh:金門縣政府 Kinmen's Matsu Pilgrimage Mission Takes Direct Course to Maizhou for Religious Interchange zh 金門媽祖朝聖團直航湄洲宗教交流(下) https://web.archive.org/web/20190829142131/https://www.kmdn.gov.tw/1117/1271/1278/172145/ 29 August 2019 https://www.kmdn.gov.tw/1117/1271/1278/172145/ w:Kinmen Daily News zh:輕鬆學英語 Immediately following the conclusion of the sacrificial(6) ceremony, the delegation from Kinmen boarded a chartered boat to Putien. In the evening Putien City Committee held a reception(7) for Kinmen and Putien representatives.
en 2012 Lau Hong Siong w:Leo Suryadinata Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=v9QEBAAAQBAJ I 9789814345217 818277347 489 https://books.google.com/books?id=v9QEBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA489 1 The inhabitants of Putien (Putian), commonly known as Hing Hua (Heng Hua), in the Province of Fujian, China, are prominent in the transport sector or businesses related to it such as spare parts shops in Southeast Asia.In 1934 Lau Hong Siong and his father fled their village in Putien County where a plague had broken out.
en 2014 An-min Huang; Jiang Jing-wen Spatial Disparity Analysis of County Agricultural Medicine Economics in Fujian Province https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09735070.2014.11917635 Studies on Ethno-Medicine 8 3 0973-5070 173256845 capital net income of rural residence data of Putien County and Putien City District in 2000 and 2001 are combined as the final data of Putien City District for the data continuity and unity
en 2016 Before the Radiation<t:zh 輻射將至> https://treesmusicart.wixsite.com/2016/copy-of-1 Trees Music & Art<t:zh 大大樹音樂圖像> Wuqiu residents, their language, culture and family ties are more closely connected to China's Putian County.
en 2020 Emma Wild-Wood The afterlife of Saint Canon Apolo (1933 onwards) The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 https://books.google.com/books?id=bgk7EAAAQBAJ 978-1-84701-246-3 1159769869 56 https://books.google.com/books?id=bgk7EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 Vedanayagam S. Azariah, the first Indian Anglican Bishop, and Dr M. K. Yue of Putien hospital in Fukien Province, China are included with Kivebulaya because of their contribution to missionary work.
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zh 2025-05-28 土地 國情簡介 行政院 https://web.archive.org/web/20191118070536/https://www.ey.gov.tw/state/4447F4A951A1EC45/094b1d53-de8d-4393-bde6-ab092969cce4 https://www.ey.gov.tw/state/4447F4A951A1EC45/094b1d53-de8d-4393-bde6-ab092969cce4 另莆田縣烏坵鄉,面積約1.2平方公里,現由金門縣政府代管。
zh 2024-03-19 金門縣政府 內政部國土計畫審議會審議「金門縣國土功能分區圖(草案)」專案小組會議簡報 https://web.archive.org/web/20250413081946/https://www.nlma.gov.tw/filesys/file/EMMA/a1130621-1.pdf https://www.nlma.gov.tw/filesys/file/EMMA/a1130621-1.pdf 5 烏坵鄉屬福建莆田縣,由金門縣代管,距金門本島72海浬。