Futsing

English

Map including 福清 FU-CH'ING (FUTSING) (Walled) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 福清 (Fúqīng).

Proper noun

Futsing

1. Dated form of Fuqing.
   • 1899 February 9 [1899 January 23], “FUTSINGHSIEN AND HAISHAN ISLAND.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[1], volume LXII, number 1645, page 247, column 1:

     The people of Futsing are noted for their independent spirit. As stated in my last they were among the last to submit to the Manchus and wear the queue.

   • 1915 April 24, “China Medical Missionary Association”, in The Lancet‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 872:

     Among other papers we may mention the following. Obstetrical Experience in Futsing City, by Dr. Mabel C. Poulter, who gave an appalling account of native methods in vogue, and showed the very good results from the treatment in hospital.

   • 1918, Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews, Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China‎^[3], →OCLC:

     For many years before Mr. Caldwell went to Yen-ping he had been stationed at the city of Futsing, about thirty miles from Foochow.

   • 1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism‎^[4], Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159:

     At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.

   • 1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family‎^[5], Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185‎^[6]:

     In a few months Foochow was cut off from Futsing by the Japanese and by bandits. The blockade was tightened, and Father was stranded in Shanghai for weeks. He finally caught a British ship to Amoy and walked the hundred and fifty miles north to Futsing.

   • 1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green‎^[7], Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:

     Captain Song is one of a colony of 275 guerrilla families form the Futsing region, just settled on Kinmen.

   • 2006, Patricia D. Netzley, The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena‎^[8], Thomson Gale, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62:

     In 1910 Harry R. Caldwell, a hunter visiting the Futsing region of China, thought he saw a tiger whose stripes were blue rather than black, and beginning in the 1920s several other people reported seeing such an animal in other parts of China as well.

Derived terms

• Futsing wolf snake

Descendants

• Translingual: Lycodon futsingensis

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Futsing or Fu-ch’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 652, column 3

Anagrams

• fusting