Fuchien

See also: Fu-chien

English

MJIB Fuchien Province Field Office

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 福建 (Fújiàn), Wade–Giles romanization: Fu²-chien⁴.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfuːtʃiˈɛn/

Proper noun

Fuchien

1. Alternative form of Fujian.
   • 1872 August 24, “Peking Gazettes.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[1], volume IX, number 277, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 151, column 3:

     During 1864, the rebels, under Li Shih-hsien and others, numbering “scores of myriads,” again invaded Kiangsi, and were joined by the remnants of the rebel forces from Soochow and Changchow. Fuchien and the neighbouring prefectures were completely over run by them, and people feared that the horrors of 1855 were about to be repeated.

   • 1897, S. W. Bushell, “Introduction to the Classification of Chinese Porcelain.—Inscriptions.—Chronology.”, in Oriental Ceramic Art‎^[2], volume 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 29:

     Such scraps of verse are often written on small pieces, and form perhaps, the sole decoration, as in the case of a little pair of blanc-de-chine winecups from the province of Fuchien, of which Fig. 60 is one.

   • 1914, Wen Pin Wei, chapter IV, in The Currency Problem in China‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 111:

     For some time past the legal currency in the various Provinces has been insufficient for use. Formerly the two Provinces of Fuchien and Kuangtung minted some large, round copper coins of excellent workmanship that were said, by the people after they were put into circulation, to be convenient.

   • 1930, “Department of Ceramics”, in Review of the Principal Acquisitions During the Year 1929‎^[4], Victoria & Albert Museum, →OCLC, page 17:

     Painting appears, but is still essentially subordinate, in the decoration of a small tea-bowl, a specimen of the widely popular type with iron-brown glaze, known in Japan as temmoku. The most famous variety was made at Chien-ning, in Fuchien province, and this is consequently known as “Chien” ware, a name often loosely applied to the whole class.

   • 1966, George T. Yu, “Rebirth: Prelude to Reorganization”, in Party Politics in Republican China: The Kuomintang, 1912-1924‎^[5], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:

     When Sun was ejected from Canton, the Kwangsi militarists took control of Kwangtung, but Ch’en and his twenty battalions were safe in Fuchien. In time he built up his force until he controlled some twenty-six hsien in southern Fuchien, with headquarters at Chang-chou.

   • 1976 July 18, “Military chieftain dies in helicopter crash”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[6], volume XVII, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Pi Ting-chun, "commander of Foochow military region," was killed in a helicopter incident[...]Pi Ting-chun, 62, a native of Kingsai, Anhwer Province, had been “deputy commander” of the “Fuchien provincial military district,” “deputy commander” of the “Foochow military region,” and “commander” of the “Lanchow military region.”

   • 1978, James C. Y. Chu, “People's Republic of China”, in Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific: A Continental Survey of Radio and Television‎^[7], Temple University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:

     As of December 1970, there were 152 radio stations, including one FM station, in the People’s Republic (FBIS 1971, Part I, pp. 52-70; Part III, p. 9). To avoid interference from foreign broadcasts, most stations use more than one frequency. Fuchien People’s Broadcasting Station at Foochow, a major outlet broadcasting to Taiwan, has 16 frequencies available for that purpose.

   • 1980, James Chan, “Modern Manufacturing Industries in Kuangtung”, in C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, China: Urbanization and National Development‎^[8], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 231:

     In the course of the eleven years prior to 1971, a medium-sized factory in Jaop'ing county (eastern Kuangtung) had extended assistance to 46 communes and 157 brigades in eleven counties along the Kuangtung-Fuchien border.

   • 1986 March 1, Mr. Meyer, “Cigarette Packets Reflect New Times”, in Taiwan Today‎^[9], archived from the original on 03 October 2022:

     The characters chin and ma, together, constitute an abbreviated way of referring to Chin Men (Kinmen) and Ma Tsu (Matsu), two islands just off the coast of Fuchien Province that serve as Taiwan's first line of defense against Communist attack and as symbols of the determination of free Chinese never to abandon their compatriots on the mainland.

   • 1998, Victor A. McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man: A Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders‎^[10], 12th edition, volume 3, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3323, column 1:

     The Chinese population of Taiwan is divided into 4 groups: Taiwanese, mainland Chinese, Hakkanese, and Aborigines. The Taiwanese, the largest group, are descendants from emigrants who left mainland China during the 17th to 19th centuries. Most were from Fuchien Province on the southeast coast of China. […] The third population is Hakkanese (Taiwan-Hakka), originally from Chung Yuan, who immigrated from the Kwangtung and Fuchien provinces on the southern coast of China and who came to Taiwan primarily during the 16th and 17th centuries.

   • 2004 January/February, Koizumi Takeo, “The Reptiles And the Batrachians”, in The East‎^[11], volume 39, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50, column 2:

     Frog meat, therefore, cannot be unsavory. The Chinese call the frog a “rice-paddy chicken”. (The people of Fuchien Province and Taiwan call it a “water chicken”.) Actually, frog meat tastes lighter and sweeter than chicken.

   • 2010 June 8, “History”, in 福建連江地方檢察署 [Fuchien Lienchiang District Prosecutors Office]‎^[12], archived from the original on 17 May 2021:

     In order to coordinate with removal of martial law cases from Taiwan and Penghu, Lienchiang Prosecutor’s Office (under the jurisdiction of Kinmen District Prosecutor’s Office, Fuchien) was set up on 10th October, 1987, at the approval of Executive Yuan. […] On 31st December, 2003, Lienchiang District Prosecutor’s Office, Fuchien, was officially established.

   • 2014 January 13, “Taiwan keeps Justin Yifu Lin on wanted list for defection”, in Taiwan News‎^[13], archived from the original on 03 October 2022, Society‎^[14]:

     Lin, born Lin Cheng-yi in 1952 in Yilan, swam about 2,000 meters to the Chinese city of Xiamen in May 1979, when he was serving as commanding officer of a frontline company in Kinmen. The outlying island county, as well as the Matsu islands to the north, is under the administration of Fuchien (Fujian) Province of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

   • 2016 April 15, “History”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office]‎^[15], archived from the original on 29 June 2022:

     Kinmen County used to belong to Tungan County of Fuchien Province.

   • 2018, Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy‎^[16], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [17]:

     The Taiwanese had originally migrated to Taiwan from areas in Fuchien Province, and spoke a different language than the Cantonese-speaking people living in Guangdong did.

   • 2019 October 17, “Article 10”, in Fee-charging Standards for the Use of State-operated Airport, Navigation Aids and Related Facilities‎^[18], archived from the original on 02 March 2022, page 6:

     The remote offshore areas set forth in the subparagraph 3 of paragraph 1 include: […]
     3. Beigan Township, Nangan Township, Jyuguang Township and Dongyin Township under the jurisdiction of Lienchiang County, Fuchien Province.

   • 2019 October 29, “Coast guard detains man who jumped bail in March”, in Taipei Times‎^[19], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 October 2019, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[20]:

     As Kuo was in March sentenced to 11 years in prison, the Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday sent him to Kinmen Prison to start serving his sentence.

   • 2020 October 6, C. Chuang, “中國抽砂船越界盜採砂石 馬祖海巡查扣 [CGA Intercepts Vessel Illegally Dredging Sand]”, in Public Television Service‎^[21], archived from the original on 30 November 2020‎^[22]:

     On Oct. 4, the 1,800 tons of sand the ship was carrying were unloaded in the waters off of Matsu, and the case was transferred to the Fuchien Lienchiang District Prosecutors' Office.

   • 2021 May 5, “History of the Court”, in Fuchien High Court Kinmen Branch Court (福建高等法院金門分院)‎^[23], archived from the original on 24 October 2021‎^[24]:

     The Court was originally the Siamen Branch Court of the Fuchien High Court which was established in Siamen City, Fuchien Province.

   • 2022, Rishan Adha et al., “ICT, carbon emissions, climate change, and energy demand nexus: The potential benefit of digitalization in Taiwan”, in Energy & Environment‎^[25], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

     The data was based on 20 locations in Taiwan which included all the cities and counties in four regions, namely, Northern, Central, Southern, and Eastern Taiwan, excluding Fuchien Province. The data from Fuchien Province lacks complete data therefore it was excluded.

   • 2022 September 16, Matt Yu, Ko Lin, “Deputy head of Matsu army command dies after being found unconscious”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[26], archived from the original on 16 September 2022, Politics‎^[27]:

     The cause of his death is currently being investigated jointly by the military police and the Fuchien Lienchiang District Prosecutors Office, the command said, without providing further details.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fuchien.

Usage notes

While both the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (mainland China) both claim the whole extent of Fujian Province, the term Fuchien is generally only used in English to refer to those parts under the control of Taiwan. In more recent years, however, it has become less common, being generally supplanted by Fujian.