Ch'üan-chou

We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.

1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road, London, →OCLC, page 208

In spite of the Manchu-imposed ban on overseas travel and trade, the Siamese tributary trade must have been profitable enough for a good many Chinese to handle it. Consequently, the early Chinese settlers in Siam were principally merchants from Chʻüan-chou prefecture in southern Fukien and Canton in Kwangtung, who were connected with the Siamese tributary trade.

1977, Sarasin Viraphol, Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese trade, 1652–1853, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40

In terms of sending Chinese immigrants and a Chinese administration to Taiwan and its adjacent P’eng-hu, it had to wait for several centuries. There are documentary evidences indicating that by 1171, P’eng-hu (Pescadores) had become a Chinese military outpost, and at least by 1225 it was administratively incorporated into the Chinese Empire—placed under the jurisdiction of Tsin-kiang County of Ch’üan-chou Prefecture, Fukien Province.

1979, Yu-ming Shaw, “Modern History of Taiwan: An Interpretative Account”, in Hungdah Chiu, editor, China and the Taiwan Issue, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8