Hokchiang

From Eastern Min 福清 (Hók-chiăng).

Hokchiang

1. Synonym of Fuqing
   • 1908, Frank L. Norris, China‎, 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, 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, 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, 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.