Foshan

alternative Fo-shan · alternative Fo-chan

1. A large prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeast China.

   At Foshan, south of Canton, 147 Japanese soldiers have died of cholera.

   1939 May 20 [1939 May 19], “Chinese Attacks Cost Japanese 24 Planes and 3 Warships”, in Daily Worker, volume XVI, number 120, New York, sourced from CHUNGKING, China, page 2, column 5

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   At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place.

   1836, John Francis Davis, The Chinese : A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, volume 1, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 38

   Foshan is a town in the neighbourhood of Canton, and happened to be the scene of Colonel Chesney's ill usage.

   1857 July-December, Thomas De Quincey, “Hints Towards an Appreciation of the Coming War in China.”, in Titan A Monthly Magazine, volume XXV, →OCLC, page 69, column 1

   Ghappar is Uighur, a Muslim minority group that has been the target of discrimination and oppression by Chinese officials in recent years. In January 2020, officials took Ghappar from his home in the southern city of Foshan to a police station in Kucha, Xinjiang. He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video.

   2020 August 7, Sophie Stuber, “Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution”, in France 24, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2020

   This time, metals markets are fixated on an incident in the southern province of Guangdong, in which several traders claim they were duped into providing credit against fictitious quantities of aluminum. More than 500 million yuan ($75 million) may have been loaned, backed by stockpiles of the metal stored in a warehouse in the city of Foshan that turned out to be worth significantly less than that.

   2022 June 6, “‘Fake’ Aluminum Stocks Put Perils of China’s Commodities Funding in Spotlight”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023, Energy

   Synonyms: Fatshan, Fat Shan