Citations:Fukien

Proper Noun: "province of China"

 * On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.
 * In the following year, over 30,000 people of T'ung-shan were evacuated. But during the rebellion of the three feudatories, when Cheng Ching again had a foothold on the mainland, the people of Fukien returned to their homes along the coast.
 * Looking through the window into the misty morning sky over Taipei from his suite at a guest house on Yangmingshan on July 8, Fan Yuan-yen's eyes were filled with tears of joy-an experience that he had never before known. Just the day before, he had made a successful flight to freedom in a MIG19, from Chingkiang in Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland to an air force base in southern Taiwan.
 * 1985, Diana Lary, Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers 1911-1937, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521302708), page 135:
 * An experience we had in a village called Liang-a, Fukien [Fujian] will give an idea of some of the present difficulties.
 * Opportunities to seaward, however risky, are more inviting than those on land. The first sign that those opportunities were being exploited is a rapid expansion of population indicated by censuses of the late seventh and eighth centuries. It may have been caused by refugees, attracted by the very inaccessibility of the region and content to farm as best they could on marginal and reclaimed lands. But by the ninth century there are numerous references in documents to the 'trade of the South Sea' on the Fukien coast.
 * 2009, Leonard H. D. Gordon, Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739118696):
 * Resembling the shape of a tobacco leaf, Taiwan lies ninety miles off the coast of China and stretches nearly two hundred miles from north to south along the turbulent strait that bears its name separating the island from Fukien (Fujian) province ...
 * 1985, Diana Lary, Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers 1911-1937, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521302708), page 135:
 * An experience we had in a village called Liang-a, Fukien [Fujian] will give an idea of some of the present difficulties.
 * Opportunities to seaward, however risky, are more inviting than those on land. The first sign that those opportunities were being exploited is a rapid expansion of population indicated by censuses of the late seventh and eighth centuries. It may have been caused by refugees, attracted by the very inaccessibility of the region and content to farm as best they could on marginal and reclaimed lands. But by the ninth century there are numerous references in documents to the 'trade of the South Sea' on the Fukien coast.
 * 2009, Leonard H. D. Gordon, Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739118696):
 * Resembling the shape of a tobacco leaf, Taiwan lies ninety miles off the coast of China and stretches nearly two hundred miles from north to south along the turbulent strait that bears its name separating the island from Fukien (Fujian) province ...
 * 2009, Leonard H. D. Gordon, Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739118696):
 * Resembling the shape of a tobacco leaf, Taiwan lies ninety miles off the coast of China and stretches nearly two hundred miles from north to south along the turbulent strait that bears its name separating the island from Fukien (Fujian) province ...

Proper Noun: "province of China"

 * 1972, G. K. Del Rosario-Pineda, Panitikang Pilipino: aklat. Bago dumating ang mga Kastila hanggang sa himagsikan sa mga Amerikano, page 20:
 * Tinawag na mga "manggugusi" ang mga Intsik na lahing Hakka na nagbuhat sa Fukien (Tsina) sapagka't kanilang inilalagay sa gusi ang bangkay ng isang magulang o nunong namatay at ibinabaon doon din sa ...


 * 1978, Lydia Fer Gonzales, Wika: tungo sa pambansang pagkakakilanlan, page 139:
 * Mula sa Fukien, Tsina ay nandayuhan sa Pilipinas ang mga Intsik na tinatawag na “ manggugusi ” sapagkat ang abo ng sinunog na bangkay ng magulang o nunong namatay ay inilalagay nila sa gusi at ibinabaon sa looban.


 * 1987, Tulay: Literary Journal of the World News, page 72:
 * Kung ang pangalang Tsino gaya ng Yap Tin-chay ay naging Yap-tinco at ikinabit dito ang magalang na katawagan sa salitang Fukienese (ang wika sa lalawigan ng Fukien sa Tsina kung saan nagmula ang karamihan ng Tsino sa Pilipinas) na ...


 * 1995, Jose Villa Panganiban, Panitikan Ng Pilipinas, page 8:
 * Ang mga Manggugusi Mula sa Fukien ( Tsina ) ay nandayuhan dito ang mga Intsik na lahing Hakka at tinawag na mga "manggugusi” dahil sa inilalagay nila sa gusi ang bangkay ng isang magulang o nunong namatay at ang gusi ay ibinabaon sa looban.


 * 2005, Roberto T. Añonuevo, Ugat ng Huweteng ~ Sawikaan 2005: mga salita ng taon, page 6:
 * Simula iyon ng pagpapabilis ng kalakalan, na taliwas noong araw na mahigpit na nakasalalay ang kalakalan ng Filipinas sa pagdating ng mga sampan mulang Amoy at Chu'uan-chou sa Fukien.


 * 2005, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Mga Nene ni Mr. Tang ~ Sigay IV (Wika at Panitikan), page 163:
 * Noong kalagitnaan ng Linggo, nakatagpo siya ng isang lalaki para kay Kim Li, ang assistant ng kanyang manedyer, isang marunong na taong ipinanganak at nag-aral sa China, na nag-iwan ng asawa at pamilya sa Fukien may labing-isang taon na ang nakalipas at hindi nga niyon mailabas-labas doon; matagal na iyong walang kinakasama at nagsabi na iyon sa Samahan ng mga Kaangkan niyon na kailangan niyon ang pangalawang asawa.

Noun: "Hokkien language"

 * 1996, Alfredo E. Litiatco, Alfredo E. Litiatco lectures of Isagani R. Cruz, page 270:
 * Sa ganitong paraan ay natuto ang mga batang Chinoy ng dalawang banyagang wika - ang Fukien o Canton na siyang wika ng karamihan sa mga dayuhang Chino, at ang Mandarin na siyang wikang panturo sa mga paaralan sa China.