Meanings
- Synonym of Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name.
1899 Two women opened work for the Methodist Protestant Church in Hunan. The women of the Hokchiang District made a “thank offering.”
1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 3113 more examples
For the same year (1878) had witnessed a remarkable development at Hokchiang, to the south of Fuhchow, as well as amongst the places to the north of that city.
1908, Frank L. Norris, China, A. R. Mowbray & Co., →OCLC, page 87On a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun.
1912, S. Moore Sites, Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 123In 1889 William H. Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed.
1957, Wade Crawford Barclay, The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939, volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 434Synonyms: Fuqing
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name.
Origin
From Eastern Min 福清 (Hók-chiăng).
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