Fukien
- a variation of Fujian.
Example Sentences
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His opportunity came when his unit was transferred last month to a base in Fukien province, just across the Taiwan Strait.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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Fifty Japanese bombers pounded airfields in Fukien, Kiangsi, and Hunan Provinces in what the Central News Agency called a "deliberate effort to wipe out Allied air bases in east and south China."
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Similarly, off the coast of Fukien province, opposite Taiwan, Nationalist patrols sometimes "capture" Communist agents posing as ordinary fishermen and subject them to intensive intelligence grilling.
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Travel in Fukien is an unceasing trial, for transport is entirely by coolies who carry from eighty to one hundred pounds.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Andrews, Roy Chapman
