Foshan
See also: Fóshān and Fo-shan
English
Alternative forms
- Fo-shan
- (from French, obsolete) Fo-chan
Etymology
From Mandarin 佛山 (Fóshān).
Proper noun
Foshan
- A large prefecture-level city in Guangdong, in southeast China.
- 1836, John Francis Davis, The Chinese : A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, volume 1, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 38:
- At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place.
- 1857 July-December, De Quincey, Thomas, “Hints Towards an Appreciation of the Coming War in China.”, in Titan A Monthly Magazine, volume XXV, OCLC 984467681, page 69, column 1:
- Foshan is a town in the neighbourhood of Canton, and happened to be the scene of Colonel Chesney's ill usage.
- 2020 August 7, Stuber, Sophie, “Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution”, in France 24, archived from the original on 24 August 2020:
- Ghappar is Uighur, a Muslim minority group that has been the target of discrimination and oppression by Chinese officials in recent years. In January 2020, officials took Ghappar from his home in the southern city of Foshan to a police station in Kucha, Xinjiang. He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Foshan.
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Synonyms
- (from Cantonese) Fatshan, Fat Shan
Translations
a city of China
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