Futsing

The people of Futsing are noted for their independent spirit. As stated in my last they were among the last to submit to the Manchus and wear the queue.

1899 February 9 [1899 January 23], “FUTSINGHSIEN AND HAISHAN ISLAND.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LXII, number 1645, page 247, column 1

Among other papers we may mention the following. Obstetrical Experience in Futsing City, by Dr. Mabel C. Poulter, who gave an appalling account of native methods in vogue, and showed the very good results from the treatment in hospital.

1915 April 24, “China Medical Missionary Association”, in The Lancet, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 872

For many years before Mr. Caldwell went to Yen-ping he had been stationed at the city of Futsing, about thirty miles from Foochow.

1918, Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews, Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China, →OCLC

At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.

1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159

In a few months Foochow was cut off from Futsing by the Japanese and by bandits. The blockade was tightened, and Father was stranded in Shanghai for weeks. He finally caught a British ship to Amoy and walked the hundred and fifty miles north to Futsing.

1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185