Paichuan

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn 白犬 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pai²-chʻüan³. Proper noun en Baiquan. en 1955 Hsinhua News Agency Release https://books.google.com/books?id=m89FAQAAIAAJ 2733160 201 2 machinegun bullets at the "Incharran" while it was sailing near the Paichuan Islands. After forcing it to stop, the Chiang pirates boarded and searched the ship. They also took the ship to the Paichuan Islands, detaining it for 48 hours. en December 31, 1955 Chiang Says Time Near For Mainland Uprising w:The Christian Science Monitor Atlantic 48 31 https://archive.org/details/per_christian-science-monitor_1955-12-31_48_31/ Boston Associated Press, Taipei, Formosa 0882-7729 10969332 4 https://archive.org/details/per_christian-science-monitor_1955-12-31_48_31/page/n3/ 5 Another possibility is an assault on the two Paichuan islands in the Matsus. Less than a square mile in area, they are too warfar—11 miles south — from Matsu for artillery support or quick reinforcement.The official Central News agency said a Nationalist patrol boat Dec. 28 captured six Communist spies disguised as fishermen as they approached within 1,000 yards of the Paichuan in a motorized fishing craft. They were taken to Matsu for questioning. en July 16, 1968 Red China Warns U.S. on Intrusions w:The Japan Times !24,976 https://archive.org/details/sim_japan-times_1968-07-16_24976/mode/2up?q=%22Paichuan+Islands%22 HONGKONG (Kyodo-Reuter) 0447-5763 21225620 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_japan-times_1968-07-16_24976/page/2/ 2 Communist China has issued another serious warning to the United States over U.S. intrusions into Chinese air and sea space, the New China News Agency reported Sunday.The agency said a U.S. warship intruded in Chinese waters on July 11 and 12 east of the Paichuan Islands in Fukien Province. en 1972 November 24, 1952 Henry R. Lieberman Islands Outposts for War on Peiping w:O. Edmund Clubb China https://archive.org/details/china0000unse_d8b8/ w:Arno Press Hong Kong, The New York Times, December 7, 1952 0-405-04162-4 72-5108 644000 161 https://archive.org/details/china0000unse_d8b8/page/161/ 2 The main Nationalist island bases off Fukien include Big and Little Quemoy, which are within artillery range of Communist-held Amoy; Matsu, forty miles northeast of Foochow, and the Paichuan Islands (Hsichuan and Tungchuan), about fifteen miles southeast of Matsu. Among the major Chekiang bases are the Yüshan Islands, about 160 miles southeast of Shanghai; the Tachen Islands, about thirty miles southeast of Haimen on Taichow Bay, and Peishan about forty miles northeast of Wenchow. en 2000 Humphrey Hawksley Humphrey Hawksley Dragon Fire https://archive.org/details/dragonfire0000hawk/ Fiction w:Macmillan 0-333-90324-2 47916016 328 https://archive.org/details/dragonfire0000hawk/page/328/ Meanwhile, fishermen on the islands of Pei-kan, Nan-kan and Pai-chuan have asked Chinese troops for help in building cyclone shelters for their boats. on en September 01, 2000 Notes From a Small Island w:Taiwan Review https://web.archive.org/web/20240918074632/https://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/news.php?post=12616&unit=8,29,32,45 https://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/news.php?post=12616&unit=8,29,32,45 September 18, 2024 Certain offshore islands were and are controlled by the ROC, but under the Constitution they technically remain the territory of Fujian Province. Bills circulating on these islands had to bear special marks. Currency notes earmarked for use on Kinmen and Matsu, and the islets of Paichuan and Tachen, either showed the name of the island or were stamped with the rubric "for circulation in Kinmen only," for example. Residents of Taiwan proper who visited those places had to exchange their money at banks when they got there, and vice versa. en