Lien-chiang

The Matsu Islands are made up of nineteen islets, which are a part of Lien-chiang county of Fukien province. The total area of the island group is only 28.8 sq km. These islands were uninhabited before the Yüan dynasty. Later, fishermen from Fukien and Chekiang used the islands for shelter and rest. From the Ming dynasty, fishermen began to settle there.

1988, “Matsu Islands”, in Republic of China, United Pacific International, →OCLC, page 194

Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.

1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia), Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160

In a total registered electorate of 13,421,170, the smallest number of votes needed to win amounts to as few as 20,000 to 50,000 in many districts.⁶ ... ⁶This is leaving aside certain small districts such as P'eng-hu, Lien-chiang, and Chin-men counties where even smaller vote counts are sufficient to win because of small population size.

1993 April 28, Andrew J. Nathan, “The Legislative Yuan Elections in Taiwan: Consequences of the Electoral System”, in Asian Survey, volume 33, number 4, page 428

Within a few weeks of the appearance of this memorial in the Peking Gazette, one of the leading Chinese newspapers contained a detailed account of a custom which is said to exist in the district of Lien-chiang, situated within the jurisdiction of the prefecture of Foochow. . . . Hence there is a scarcely a family in Lien-chiang, which cannot boast of a 'virtuous widow,' and the whole country is studded with pʻai-lous erected in their honour.

1890, Arthur H. Smith, Chinese Characteristics, Shanghai: North China Herald, pages 229-230

Japanese sources mention five cases in which ships engaged in foreign intercourse either landed in or set sail from Fukien or southern Chekiang ports....in 853 the monk Eun 惠運 landed in the neighborhood of Lien-chiang-hsien 連江縣 east of Fu-chou in northern Fukien,....

[1940, Edwin O. Reischauer, “Notes on T'ang Dynasty Sea Routes”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 5, Cambridge, Mass., page 155

To counter this resurgence, the Socialist Education campaign was initiated in 1962. The revival of various traditional customs such as conspicuous consumption, marriage by sale, superstition, and petty trade is well documented in the confidential files of the Party branch in Lien-chiang county, Fukien province.

1971, Alan P. L. Liu, Communications and National Integration in Communist China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 172

Lien-chiang county inaugurated a program of socialist education and ideological training almost as soon as the Tenth Plenum had concluded, but quickly discovered that problems at the basic level were so numerous that a new rectification campaign would have to be conducted before a more ambitious program could be properly launched.

1971, Charles Neuhauser, The Chinese Communist Party in the 1960s: Prelude to the Cultural Revolution (China In Ferment Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution), Prentice Hall, page 35

Another group of materials, acquired during the night of March 4, 1964 by a Nationalist commando raid, contained official policies pertaining to fourteen rural communes of Lien-chiang county in Fukien.

1986, Tai-chün Kuo, Ramon H. Myers, Understanding Communist China, Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, page 8