Fu-k'ang

See also: Fukang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 阜康 (Fùkāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Fu⁴-kʻang¹.

Proper noun

Fu-k'ang

Alternative form of Fukang
- 1937, Eric Teichman, “Across the T’ien Shan to Urumchi”, in Journey to Turkistan‎^[1], London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, →OCLC, page 98:
  The Tungan army had left a trail of desolation in the style traditional of Chinese Moslem wars. The old-time Chinese magistrate of Fu-k’ang told us of the sufferings of his flock in the rebellion. His district included the lower ranges of the Bogdo Ula group, with many Kazak.
- 1986, Andrew D. W. Forbes, Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:
  The strategic Dawan Ch’eng was taken, the district of Fu-k’ang — some twenty-five miles north-east of the capital — fell into rebel hands, and in the neighbouring district of San-to-pao an estimated 900 Han Chinese were killed, whilst large stocks of rice which would normally have provisioned Urumchi were captured and burned.
- 2007, Chun-shu (張春樹) Chang, “The Han March to Inner Asia: The Colonization of the Western Regions in Former Han Times”, in The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Nation, State, and Imperialism in Early China, ca. 1600 B.C.-A.D. 8‎^[3], volume 1, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219:
  Later a larger Han force under General Wang Hui went to the northwest and captured the king of Ku-shih (Ku-shih, in the modern Turfan, Ch’i-t’ai, and Fu-k’ang area in northwestern Sinkiang, with its center at Chiao-ho city, Yarkhoto).