Citations:Fu

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English citations of Fu

County in Shaanxi[edit]

  • 1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung[1], volume 1, Bombay: People's Publishing House, →OCLC, page 316:
    The battle of Chihlo, south-west of Fu county, was the last major engagement in which the Central Red Army took part after its arrival in October and in which one of the enemy divisions was completely annihilated.
  • 1977, Dick Wilson, editor, Mao Tse-tung in the Scales of History: a Preliminary Assessment[2], Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:
    Mao's early career also illustrates his ability to alternate upsurges of optimistic advance with calculated retreats and cold pragmatism. One reason why flexibility and pragmatism were so important was the tendency of Mao's comrades to implement orthodox Russian Marxism without making allowance for important differences between Russian and Chinese conditions. Mao complained of such colleagues that "what a man has learnt in Yenan [in theoretical classes] he doesn't know how to apply in Fu county."
  • 1996, David R. Knechtges, “The Poetry of Du Fu (Tu Fu)”, in Ian P. McGreal, editor, Great Literature of the Eastern World[3], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80, column 1:
    He immediately went to Fengxian to care for his wife and children. Fearing for their safety, he moved them to Fuzhou (modern Fu county, Shaanxi).
  • 2017 December 22, “Top ten artifacts in Shaanxi”, in The Government Website of Shaanxi Province[4], archived from the original on 18 March 2023[5]:
    Smoked Painting in Fu County originated from dish rack – a type of ancient folk ornamental artifact in Fu County. Dish rack is a piece of furniture which different rural counties in the south of Yan’an use as a tiled jar to place rice, flour, and tableware. It is similar to today’s kitchen cabinet in function.
  • [2021 September 1, MA LI, “New Drivers of Yan'an's Development”, in China Today[6], archived from the original on 02 November 2021[7]:
    Clad in a safety helmet and work overalls, 54-year-old Tang Keqi goes each morning to the construction site of Fuxian County power plant in Yan’an City. Surrounded by dump trucks amid the hum of electric powered engines, he oversees the 2,000 or more workers on the site.]

Administrative Division Fu[edit]

cf. Dien Bien Phu

  • [1845 June, Richard Collinson, “Sailing Directions for the Panghú, or Pescadore Archipelago, with notices of the islands.”, in The Chinese Repository[8], volume XIV, number 6, Canton, →OCLC, page 249:
    We may remark here, that the Pescadore Group of islands forms one of the six districts which constitute Táiwán 臺灣府, the department of Táiwán, or Formosa. The Group is called by the Chinese, in their statistical works, Panghú ting, 澎湖廳, or the district of Panghú, and is under the immediate government of a magistrate, a subordinate of the prefect, or chífú, of Formosa.]
  • 1891 January 2 [1890 December 1], “POSTHUMOUS HONOURS TO A BRIGADIER-GENERAL.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette[9], volume XLVI, number 1222, page 12, column 1:
    It is asked that in addition to receiving the posthumous honours usually accorded to a Commander-in-chief who died from the effects of services rendered in the field he should have a temple built to perpetuate hiy memory in the city of T'aipei Fu, and that his biography should be compiled by the Court Historians.
  • 1892 December 9 [1892 October 22], “TYPHOONS IN FORMOSA.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette[10], volume XLIX, number 1323, page 869, columns 1, 2:
    Just as the memorialist's writing (apparently on the 6th of September) a tremendous gale has sprung up in Taipei Fu and is doing a good deal of damage to the buildings there.
  • 1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia[11], New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 10:
    The capital, Kʻai-fêng Fu (開封府), is situated a few miles from the south bank of the Yellow River.
  • 1905, “Foreign Mission Board Report”, in Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention 1905[12], number 60, Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall & Bruce Company, page 149:
    Chengchow is on the Pehan (Peking-Hankow) railway, about fifteen miles south of the Yellow river, and about forty-five miles west of Kaifeng. This railway is being rapidly pushed to completion. Another railway is to be built from Kaifeng to Honanfu, which will have its junction with the Pehan railway at this place.