Wuchiu

English

Map including 烏坵嶼 Wu-chʻiu Hsü (Ockseu) (AMS, 1953) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 烏坵 (Wūqiū) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu¹-chʻiu¹.

Proper noun

Wuchiu

1. Alternative form of Wuqiu
   • 1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power‎^[1], Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229‎^[2]:

     He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.

   • [1967 November 30, “The Armed Forces”, in Area Handbook for the Republic of China‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1969, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 409:

     The offshore island defense commands included those for Quemoy, Matsu, and the Pescadores and the Wu-ch'iu and Tung-yin island groups.]

   • 1969, China Yearbook 1968-69‎^[4], volume 22, Taipei: China Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 449:

     [1965 Nov.] 13— The Chinese Navy sank four Chinese Communist gunboats off the Wuchiu Islands near the Chinese mainland.

   • 1983, David W. Reinhard, The Republican Right Since 1945‎^[5], Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:

     Knowland expressed grave fears that the administration was about to be duped by the “Trojan Horse of co-existence” being advanced by the Soviet Union. Then he called upon the Congress to investigate current American foreign and defense policy. Days later, after Communist China announced its imprisonment of thirteen Americans captured during the Korean War and fired on the Nationalist-held island of Wuchiu, Knowland urged an immediate blockade of Red China. When Knowland subsequently sided with Senator McCarthy, pundits believed that he had gone over to the Republican Right, severing all connections with the Eisenhower administration.²⁹

   • 1994 July, Robert Storey, Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit‎^[6], 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 261–262:

     Between Kinmen and Matsu - and also just a stone’s throw from the Chinese mainland - is a third island called Wuchiu. The island is so small and insignificant that the Communists didn’t even bother shelling it.[...]For 40 years, Kinmen, Matsu and Wuchiu even had their own currency to prevent capital flight, but these days standard NT$ are acceptable.

   • 2000 March 14, Erik Eckholm, “China and Taiwan Pursue Secret Nuclear Waste Deal”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 February 2011, World‎^[8]:

     Another plan to build an undersea repository off the Wuchiu islands in the Taiwan Strait has set off local protests. China also reportedly objected to shipping facilities that could have military uses so close to its coast.

   • 2001 December 26, “President Chen Visits Outlying Island of Wuchiu”, in 中華民國總統府 [Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)]‎^[9], archived from the original on 14 October 2022‎^[10]:

     Republic of China President Chen Shui-bian visited Wuchiu Wednesday and instructed the troops garrisoned on the tiny outlying island to remain on guard to prevent mainland Chinese infiltration.
     Accompanied by Minister of National Defense Wu Shih-wen and Chief of the General Staff Gen. Tang Yao-ming, Chen was the first ROC president ever to visit Wuchiu during his term in office.
     The president said that Wuchiu is strategically located between Kinmen and Matsu in the Taiwan Strait and serves as a forward post in the defense of Taiwan that can provide early warning on incoming aircraft.

   • 2013, Rongxing Guo, Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook‎^[11], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

     The Wuchiu (Wuqiu) Islands are nominally administered in the PRC by the Xiuyu District of the Putian prefecture, but are in reality controlled by the Republic of China, which administers Wuchiu (Wuqiu) as part of Quemoy (Jinmen) County.

   • 2015, Bi-yu Chang, Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan‎^[12], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL:

     Because of its remoteness, Wuchiu was called 'the offshore islands of the offshore islands'. Even now, military ships only provide supplies between Wuchiu and Taichung once every ten days.

   • 2017, Diana Fisher, Laoshi: Three Years in Taiwan‎^[13], Oxford Mills, Ontario: Farmhouse Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:

     We were looking out over the Taiwan Strait just south of Wuchiu Island, toward Mainland China. It was a cloudy day, but we clearly saw a very strange object in the sky.

   • 2021 December 27, Po-yang Hsiao, Kuan Jui-ping, Chang Hsiu-feng, Evelyn Kao, “Hehuanshan sees winter's heaviest snowfall so far”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[14], archived from the original on 27 December 2021:

     On Monday, the weather on the outlying islands will remain cold, with Dongyin in Lienchiang County to experience temperatures as low as 7 degrees at 2:30 p.m., while Wuchiu in Kinmen can expect temperatures of 9.3 degrees at 3:50 p.m.

   • 2022 August 25, Yimou Lee, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan aims for big rise in defence spending amid escalating China tension”, in Himani Sarkar, Gerry Doyle, editors, Reuters‎^[15], archived from the original on 25 August 2022, Aerospace & Defense:

     Live-fire drills will take place in a coastal part of China's Fujian province on Friday and Saturday, just north of the tiny Taiwan-controlled Wuchiu islands in the Taiwan Strait, Fujian authorities said on Wednesday, announcing a no-sail zone.

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

Translations

Wuqiu — see Wuqiu

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wu-ch'iu Island”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[16], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1