Fugou

See also: fùgòu

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 扶溝 / 扶沟.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fo͞oʹgōʹ[1]

Proper noun

Fugou

  1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
    • [1965, Franklin W. Houn, “The Chinese Monarch and Limits on Royal Power”, in Chinese Political Traditions[2], Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
      The philosopher-official Ch’eng Hao (1033-1084), for example, won much esteem from officialdom and the intelligentsia when, as the magistrate of Fu-kou county, he stubbornly refused to implement the pao-chia system which was one of the prized projects of Emperior[sic – meaning Emperor] Shen-tsung (r. 1068-1085) and his reformist Prime Minister Wang An-shih (1019-1086).]
    • 2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Shuping Wang, Who Helped Expose China’s Rural AIDS Crisis, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 September 2019, Asia Pacific‎[4]:
      Shuping Wang was born Zou Shuping on Oct. 20, 1959, in Fugou County, Henan. Her mother, Huang Yunling, was a village doctor; her father, Zou Bangyan, was a math teacher who had been a soldier in the Nationalist forces that were defeated by Mao Zedong’s Communists.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fukow or Fu-kou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 649, column 2

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