Fugou

See also: fùgòu

English

Alternative forms

• Fu-kou, Fukou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 扶溝／扶沟.

Proper noun

Fugou

1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
   • [1965, Franklin W. Houn, “The Chinese Monarch and Limits on Royal Power”, in Chinese Political Traditions‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

     The philosopher-official Ch’eng Hao (1033-1084), for example, won much esteem from officialdom and the intelligentsia when, as the magistrate of Fu-kou county, he stubbornly refused to implement the pao-chia system which was one of the prized projects of Emperior^{[sic – meaning Emperor]} Shen-tsung (r. 1068-1085) and his reformist Prime Minister Wang An-shih (1019-1086).]

   • 2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Shuping Wang, Who Helped Expose China’s Rural AIDS Crisis, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 30, 2019, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     Shuping Wang was born Zou Shuping on Oct. 20, 1959, in Fugou County, Henan. Her mother, Huang Yunling, was a village doctor; her father, Zou Bangyan, was a math teacher who had been a soldier in the Nationalist forces that were defeated by Mao Zedong’s Communists.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扶溝／扶沟 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fugou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1291, column 3