Fu-k'ang
See also: Fukang
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 阜康 (Fùkāng) Wade-Giles romanization: Fu⁴-kʻang¹.
Proper noun
Fu-k'ang
- Alternative form of Fukang
- 1986, Andrew D. W. Forbes, Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 84-17037, OCLC 883366295, OL 2854577M, page 103:
- The strategic Dawan Ch’eng was taken, the district of Fu-k’ang — some twenty-five miles north-east of the capital — fell into rebel hands, and in the neighbouring district of San-to-pao an estimated 900 Han Chinese were killed, whilst large stocks of rice which would normally have provisioned Urumchi were captured and burned.
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