Fuching

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/ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

A form of Fuqing — A county-level city of Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Fuqing.

    In 1971, Fuching County gathered 210,000 piculs of clams and kelp.

    1972 March 14 [1972 February 27], “Fukien Marine Products”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 51, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Foochow Fukien Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: East Region, page C 9
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    The average condylobasal length of four adult males from Fuching, Fukien, is 135.1 mm., of four females 127.8 mm.

    1929 July 17, Glover Morrill Allen, “Carnivora From the Asiatic Expeditions”, in Collected Papers of G.M. Allen 1927-1929 (American Museum Novitates), volume 1, number 360, →OCLC, page 7

    Indonesia's Liem Sioe Liong became a major developer in Fukien. His efforts are centered on Fuching, his hometown just south of Foochow. Even before Indonesia and China normalized relations in 1990, Liem was pouring money into Fuching, earmarking $89 million to build a ten-mile highway, dozens of sprawling apartment blocks, office buildings and factories, and a marble-lobbied three-star hotel.

    1995, Sterling Seagrave, Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 286

    Changle and nearby Fuching are, the locals say, ‘widows’ villages’, but such is the admiration given to those who send money back from abroad that poverty is now considered shameful, a disgrace.

    2004, Tony Thompson, Gangs: A Journey into the Heart of the British underworld, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 325

Origin

From Mandarin 福清 (Fúqīng), Wade–Giles romanization: Fu²-chʻing¹.

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