See Putien on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green, Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:",
"text": "But still two questions remain. Can Nationalist China take a bridgehead without American aid? And once taken, what happens next? Of what good will a small piece of land around Foochow, or Amoy, or Putien be to Free China?",
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"ref": "1975 November 16, L. Chen, “Maoist showcase of big troubles”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 45, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:",
"text": "Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.",
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"text": "Fukien bamboo ware attracts with clever combinations of natural and painted colors and is resistant to worms and mildew. The products from Putien county have such novel designs as the panda, tropical fish and patterns copied from paintings on silk excavated from the famous 2,000-year-old tomb at Mawangtui in Hunan province.",
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"ref": "1996, Simon Winchester, The River at the Centre of the World, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 270:",
"text": "Statistics on the movement of umbrellas in Canton, vermicelli from Chinchew, animal tallow from Chinghai and coal dust from Putien were all treated with the same care and attention to detail as was vast 'Treasure, Imported and Exported'",
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"text": "On April 10 the \"Meizhou Matsu Pilgrimage(1) Mission\" organized by representatives from different sectors of Kinmen took a direct course to Meizhou, beginning a three-day-two-night religious exchange that included Putien and Quanzhou.",
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"ref": "2012, “Lau Hong Siong”, in Leo Suryadinata, editor, Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Biographical Dictionary, volume I, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489, column 1:",
"text": "The inhabitants of Putien (Putian), commonly known as Hing Hua (Heng Hua), in the Province of Fujian, China, are prominent in the transport sector or businesses related to it such as spare parts shops in Southeast Asia.[…]\nIn 1934 Lau Hong Siong and his father fled their village in Putien County where a plague had broken out.",
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"text": "Vedanayagam S. Azariah, the first Indian Anglican Bishop, and Dr M. K. Yue of Putien hospital in Fukien Province, China are included with Kivebulaya because of their contribution to missionary work.",
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"text": "The inhabitants of Putien (Putian), commonly known as Hing Hua (Heng Hua), in the Province of Fujian, China, are prominent in the transport sector or businesses related to it such as spare parts shops in Southeast Asia.[…]\nIn 1934 Lau Hong Siong and his father fled their village in Putien County where a plague had broken out.",
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