Hokchiang

English

Etymology

From Eastern Min 福清 (Hók-chiăng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hōkʹchyängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Hokchiang

  1. Synonym of Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name.
    • 1908, Frank L. Norris, China‎[2], A. R. Mowbray & Co., →OCLC, 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[3], Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, 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[4], Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, 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[5], volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church, →OCLC, 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.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Futsing or Fu-ch’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 652, column 3: “Fukienese Hokkiang (hōkʹchyängʹ)”
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