Hokchiang
English
Etymology
From Min Dong 福清 (Hók-chiăng).
Proper noun
Hokchiang
- Synonym of Fuqing
- 1908, Frank L. Norris, China, A. R. Mowbray & Co., OCLC 2077142, page 87:
- For the same year (1878) had witnessed a remarkable development at Hokchiang, to the south of Fuhchow, as well as amongst the places to the north of that city.
- 1912, S. Moore Sites, Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East, Fleming H. Revell Company, OCLC 3408827, page 123:
- On a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun.
- 1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, OCLC 251163056, page 311:
- 1899 Two women opened work for the Methodist Protestant Church in Hunan. The women of the Hokchiang District made a “thank offering.”
- 1957, Wade Crawford Barclay, The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939, volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church, OCLC 1042837507, page 434:
- In 1889 William H. Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed.
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