Definition of "Futsing"

The people of Futsing are noted for their independent spirit. As stated in my last they were among the last to submit to the Manchus and wear the queue.

1899 February 9 , “FUTSINGHSIEN AND HAISHAN ISLAND.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume LXII, number 1645, page 247, column 1

Among other papers we may mention the following. Obstetrical Experience in Futsing City, by Dr. Mabel C. Poulter, who gave an appalling account of native methods in vogue, and showed the very good results from the treatment in hospital.

1915 April 24, “China Medical Missionary Association”, in The Lancet‎, page 872

For many years before Mr. Caldwell went to Yen-ping he had been stationed at the city of Futsing, about thirty miles from Foochow.

1918, Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews, Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China‎

At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.

1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism‎, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, page 159

In a few months Foochow was cut off from Futsing by the Japanese and by bandits. The blockade was tightened, and Father was stranded in Shanghai for weeks. He finally caught a British ship to Amoy and walked the hundred and fifty miles north to Futsing.

1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family‎, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, page 185‎

Captain Song is one of a colony of 275 guerrilla families form the Futsing region, just settled on Kinmen.

1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green‎, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, page 55

In 1910 Harry R. Caldwell, a hunter visiting the Futsing region of China, thought he saw a tiger whose stripes were blue rather than black, and beginning in the 1920s several other people reported seeing such an animal in other parts of China as well.

2006, Patricia D. Netzley, The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena‎, Thomson Gale, page 62