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FUKIEN [3 records]

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Record 1 2004-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
  • Exhibition Themes (Museums and Heritage)
OBS

Taiwan's glove puppetry is derived primarily from the puppet theater of Chuanchow in Fukien Province and supplemented by puppetry traditions from Changchow, also in fukien Province, and Chaochow in Kwangtung Province.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
  • Thèmes d'expositions (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
OBS

La province de Fou-kien, située sur la côte du Sud-Est de la Chine, entre Hong Kong et Shanghai, est aussi appelée Fukien et Fujian.

Spanish

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Record 2 1989-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Porcelain and Fine Ceramics
CONT

Provincial wares are of a generally coarse type, but a shining exception is the white porcelain made at Tê-Hua in the province of Fukien(China).

CONT

The staple product of Ching-te-chen was the white porcelain that made China a household word through the world.

CONT

Kaolin (china clay) for the body and china stone to mix with it to form the glaze made the white porcelain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Porcelaines
CONT

(...) la dynastie Tang (618-907) qui voit aussi la naissance d'une véritable porcelaine blanche à couverte feldspathique, aux formes raffinées, appelée xingyao.

Spanish

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Record 3 1982-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language Teaching
  • Regional Dialects and Expressions
CONT

(...) Chinese has many dialects(...) Fukienese, or Min, spoken by about 45 million people, and generally subdivided into Northern Fukienese, or Foochow(15 million speakers), of northern Fukien, and Southern Fukienese, or Amoy(30 million speakers), of southern Fukien, Amoy Island, and Taiwan;(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enseignement des langues
  • Régionalismes et usages particuliers
CONT

La langue parlée se différencie (...) en une multitude de dialectes (...). Dans les régions côtières, au Sud-Est et au Sud on parle des dialectes à la fois très différents du mandarin et très différents les uns des autres: à quelques heures de bateau, dans les provinces de Zhejiang [on parle] du Fujian (fou-kien) (...).

Spanish

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