On the right were the Second, the Third and the Fifth Armies, plus the Independent First Division, all under my personal command, with Nanchang** and Kiukiang as our targets. Meanwhile a part of the First Army was to advance toward Chekiang by way of Fukien and later to join with the right column in operations against Shanghai and Nanking.
1973 May 11, “Taiwan Fisherman Compatriots Rescued”, in Peking Review[2], volume 16, number 19, archived from the original on 12 May 2019, page 4:
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.
1976, Lawrence D. Kessler, K'ang-hsi and the Consolidation of Ch'ing Rule 1661-1684[3], pages 43-44:
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.
1977 July 24, T. K. Yang, “Freedom seeker says m'land people fight pigs for food”, in Free China Weekly[4], volume XVIII, number 29, Taipei, page 2:
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.
A third matter very much on the minds of the Gimo and Chiang Ching-kuo was how much help we could expect from the U.S. Government in case of another Chinese Communist attack on Quemoy and Matsu, the two island groups off the Fukien coast.
1985, Diana Lary, Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers 1911-1937, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 135:
An experience we had in a village called Liang-a, Fukien [Fujian] will give an idea of some of the present difficulties.
If the United States revoked MFN status, tariffs would skyrocket on the goods such as textiles, shoes, and toys that are primarily produced by private enterprises. Coastal provinces, such as Guangdong near Hong Kong and Fukien near Taiwan, that have served as the beachhead for free-market economics would suffer the worst blow.
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):
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 ...
2015, Wan-yao (周婉窈) Chou, “Han Homelands and the Immigrant Settler Society”, in Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan[8], Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87:
After the Sino-French War of 1883-1885, the Ch’ing court decided to elevate Taiwan from a prefecture (fu) of Fukien Province to a province. Taiwan Province had three fu and one special prefecture (chih-li-chou).
2021 November 19, Dan Nakasone, “Featured Story – GETTING TO THE ROOT OF BENI IMO”, in The Hawaiʻi Herald[9], archived from the original on 28 January 2022:
According to George Kerr’s book, “Okinawa, The History of an Island People,” beni imo was brought to Okinawa in 1606 by Noguni Sōkan, who was stationed at a Ryūkyū (Okinawa) trading post in the southern coastal district of the Fukien Province, China.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
