Citations:Chinchew
English citations of Chinchew
- 1837 May, “Coast of China: the division of it into four portions ; brief description of the principal places on the southeastern, eastern, and northeastern portions.”, in The Chinese Repository[1], volume VI, number 1, Canton, →OCLC, pages 12–13:
- The Lamyet (or Nanjeih) islands are situated to the northeastward of Chinchew bay, the nearest distant about forty miles. The mainland, leaving its usual northeastern direction, runs out due east for above thirty miles, and the first of the Lamyet islands lies off the easternmost point of it. From hence there is an almost uninterrupted series of islands and islets, up to the mouth of the Yangtsze keäng. The Lamyet islands are opposite to the entrance of a deep bay, at the bottom of which is the city of Hinghwa foo, the capital of the most fertile portion of Fuhkeën. This bay, however, has not yet been visited by foreigners. The outermost of the Lamyet islands, named by Ross Ocksou, was found, when passed by the ships of Lord Amherst’s embassy, to be in lat .24° 59' 15" north, lon. 119° 34' 30" east. About thirty miles further to the northward, we pass between an island of peculiar form and the main. This island is named Haetan, the altar of the sea ; in shape it is semicircular, and of nearly equal breadth throughout. A few miles above this island we reach the mouth of the river Min.
- 1894, John Gerardus Fagg, Forty Years in South China[2], New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 135:
- It was then suggested that if two more men were ready perhaps it would be well to appoint them for the region north of us, to carry the Gospel to the villages and towns between Amoy and Chinchew and see whether the way might not be open to begin operations in that city. Chinchew is an important city near the seacoast, about one-third of the way from Amoy to Foochovv. The suggestion concerning the appointment of men for Chinchew was new to us.
- 1894 August 4, “MAN-EATING TIGERS.; Thrilling Story Told by a Lady Missionary Long Residing in China.”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 November 2023, page 3[4]:
- Miss L. E. Ramsey of Dublin, Ireland, a missionary of the English Presbyterian Church for five years among the densely populated and ignorant natives of ChinChew, China, is at the Occidental Hotel. Miss Ramsey and her friend, Miss Graham of London, also representing the English Presbyterian Church, are the only white missionaries in that part of China.
- 1975, Peter Ward Fay, The Opium War 1840-1842[5], Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
- They holed easily; once, off Chinchew, when Dent’s Lord Amherst chose to send a few warning rounds over the heads of several anchored rather too close, a gun happened to hang fire until the ship rolled, and she accidentally put a ball smack into one and saw her fill and go down.
- 1989, Gunnar Thompson, Nu Sun[6], Fresno, CA: Pioneer Publishing Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 214:
- Worcester (1972, 22) indicates that the whitewash used on ships around Chinchew, China, contains wood oil extracted from the poisonous seeds of Dryandra cordifolia which prevents attack by sea worms.
- 2016, Liam Byrne, “William Jardine”, in Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain[7], Head of Zeus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 227:
- Sailing under Spanish colours with his cousin William McKay at the helm, Matheson left the safe haven of Canton and headed north to Chinchew (Quanzhou), in Fujian. There, Matheson managed to offload $80,000- (over £17,000)- worth of the drug — enough to persuade him to return in the autumn - when storms forced his ship to take shelter 30 miles short of Chinchew in what turned out to be the region’s principal opium port.
- 2019 January 3, Ananth Krishnan, “The forgotten history of Quanzhou Hindu Temples in China.”, in Fujian Provincial People's Government[8], sourced from 省外办, archived from the original on June 23, 2024, Moments in Fujian[9]:
- In and around Quanzhou, a bustling industrial city, there are shrines that historians believe may have been part of a network of more than a dozen Hindu temples and shrines. Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province in Eastern China.
- 2019 April 21, Jojie Alcantara, “The Jose Rizal Square in Jinjiang, China”, in SunStar[10], archived from the original on 01 April 2023[11]:
- Rizal’s great, great grandfather named Domingo Lamco (also called Lam-co, Cua Yi Lam in Hokkien or Ke Yi-nan in Mandarin) was a native of Sionque, in the Chinchew district of the province of Fookien. He migrated to the Philippines due to political unrest in China and settled in Calamba in 1697.