Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Fukang.
Later a larger Han force under General Wang Hui went to the northwest and captured the king of Ku-shih (Ku-shih, in the modern Turfan, Ch’i-t’ai, and Fu-k’ang area in northwestern Sinkiang, with its center at Chiao-ho city, Yarkhoto).
2007, Chun-shu (張春樹) Chang, “The Han March to Inner Asia: The Colonization of the Western Regions in Former Han Times”, in The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Nation, State, and Imperialism in Early China, ca. 1600 B.C.-A.D. 8, volume 1, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2192 more examples
The Tungan army had left a trail of desolation in the style traditional of Chinese Moslem wars. The old-time Chinese magistrate of Fu-k’ang told us of the sufferings of his flock in the rebellion. His district included the lower ranges of the Bogdo Ula group, with many Kazak.
1937, Eric Teichman, “Across the T’ien Shan to Urumchi”, in Journey to Turkistan, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, →OCLC, page 98The strategic Dawan Ch’eng was taken, the district of Fu-k’ang — some twenty-five miles north-east of the capital — fell into rebel hands, and in the neighbouring district of San-to-pao an estimated 900 Han Chinese were killed, whilst large stocks of rice which would normally have provisioned Urumchi were captured and burned.
1986, Andrew D. W. Forbes, Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 103
Origin
- Mandarin阜康
- EnglishFu-k'ang
From Mandarin 阜康 (Fùkāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Fu⁴-kʻang¹.
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