Fuzhounese

comparative more Fuzhounese · superlative most Fuzhounese · alternative Foochownese

1. Of, from or pertaining to Fuzhou.

   Since the early 1980s, Fuzhounese immigrants have been the primary force behind the transformation and revitalization of New York's Chinatown.

   2013, Kenneth J. Guest, “From Mott Street to East Broadway: Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown”, in Bernard P. Wong, Chee-Beng Tan, editors, Chinatowns around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora, Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 42

alternative Foochownese

1. in pluralAn inhabitant of Fuzhou; a person of Fuzhounese descent.

   A sixth wave, largely visible to the public, if not to the Fuzhounese themselves, is made up of children born in the United States but sent back to China as infants.

   2003, Kenneth J. Guest, God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community, New York and London: New York University Press, page 32

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   But actually we Fuzhounese are the hardest workers. We are working hard to change the bad impression the people have on us. I am glad I am a Fuzhounese, because we are the hardest workers among all immigrants.

   2009, Danling Fu, “New Chinese Immigrant Students' Literacy Development: From Heritage Language to Bilingualism”, in Jerrie Cobb Scott, Dolores Y. Straker, Laurie Katz, editors, Affirming Students' Right to Their Own Language: Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices, New York: Routledge, page 251

   Conflict between the Ibans and the Fuzhounese were inevitable as such. A particular incident involving large influx of Fuzhounese into Sarawak as planters was worthy of mention.

   2013, Lee Khoon Choy, Golden Dragon And Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, page 461

alternative Foochownese

1. The dialect of Eastern Min that is spoken in Fuzhou.

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   Nine months of intensive Fuzhounese lessons got me only so far in listening comprehension of the local chitchat in Longyan. Once I opened my mouth and needed to communicate predominantly in the national dialect of Mandarin (with a smattering of simple Fuzhounese), phenotype be damned—my foreignness was marked.

   2010, Julie Y. Chu, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China, Durham and London: Duke University Press, page 263