CHU I-kuei 朱一貴, d. c. 1721, desperado, was a native of Chʻang-tʻai, Fukien.
1977 August 19 [1977 March 1], “Fukien's Prefecture-County-Commune-Brigade Four-Level Agricultural Scientific Experimental Network Develops Continuously”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 391, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong CHUNG-KUO HSIN-WEN, p 10, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, AGRICULTURE, page 36:
Last year, the province planted over 50,000 mou of hybrid paddy rice, and the seasonal output of over 900 mou therein exceeded 1,000 catties. San-ming prefecture launched mass soil surveys and obtained encouraging results. Ch'ang-t'ai County persevered in many items of scientific experiments such as soil improvement, additional fertilizing, and seed selection.
1990, E. B. Vermeer, editor, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries[2], E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:
As early as 1659, when the mouldering ruins of several big temples in Ch’ang-t’ai county had deprived the local government of a substantial part of its revenues, a magistrate name Yuan reversed the previous decision[…]
Tai was a native of Ch’ang-t’ai county in Chang-chou, Fukien, and it is likely that connections with the Fukien traders who had been in the Macao area longer than the Portuguese influenced his attitudes.
According to Fu Yiling, permanent tenure became common during the Wanli period. Gu Yanwu noted that early in that period, a magistrate of Chang-chou had written that in Ch’ang-t’ai county irrigated farmland had just one owner, but in Lung-hsi, Nanking, and P'ing-ho counties three "owners" (chu).
