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Some villagers say that recently the ghost of Confucius, accompanied by the wraiths of several disciples, was seen wandering through a certain Fukien forest.

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After a year of European lecturing, Dr. Chen, who had been ordained to the Methodist ministry, returned to China to be Dean of Fukien Christian College.

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He said that he had seen many people "half starving," and that disturbances, particularly among tenant farmers, had been widespread in Fukien province.

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To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton.

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But in the South Buddhism nourished in the province of Fukien under the princes of Min and the dynasty which called itself Southern T'ang.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir