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• P'u-t'ien, Pu-tien, Putien (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] romanization of the Mandarin 莆田 (Pútián).

• enPR: po͞oʹtyěnʹ

Putian

1. A prefecture-level city in Fujian, China.
   • 1987 February 3 [1986 July 5], Zhiqin Wang, Wang Yang, “SOLVING FUJIAN'S GRAIN PROBLEM: "The Crux of the Grain Problem in Fujian and How To Deal With It"”, in China Report Economic Affairs‎^[2], volume JPRS-CEA-87-007, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 87:

     Since we mainly rely on shipping grain into southern Fujian by sea, we could construct modern docks and warehouses for grain at the ports of Xiamen, Jinzhou, Xiaocuo, and Putian Xiuyu, and organize a special shipping brigade to transport grain in, and to ship out cane sugar, fruits, aquatic products, and special local products.

   • 1996 March 21 [1996 March 18], Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) He, “There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands”, in Daily Report: China‎^[3], numbers 96-056, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2:

     Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsun^{[sic – meaning Tachiu-tsun]}] and Xiaoqiucun [Hsiaochiu-tsun] with each covering approximately one square km. Formerly a township under Fujian's Putian County, its main dialect is similar to the one spoken in the Putian and Xianyou area. It was placed under the administration of Jinmen County after the Kuomintang Government retreated from the mainland.

   • 2007, The Journal of Offshore Technology‎^[4], volume 15, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     Located at Xiuyu, Putian, to the north of Meizhou Bay, the designed capacity for Phase 1 is 2.6Mt pa, with two LNG tanks each with a capacity of 145 000m².

   • 2013, Rongxing Guo, Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

     The Wuchiu (Wuqiu) Islands are nominally administered in the PRC by the Xiuyu District of the Putian prefecture, but are in reality controlled by the Republic of China, which administers Wuchiu (Wuqiu) as part of Quemoy (Jinmen) County.

   • 2017 May 3, “Feeding the passion”, in Business Times‎^[6], archived from the original on 01 July 2017:

     Putien started in 1987, when Mr Fong ventured out of his hometown of Putian, a small agricultural coastal village in China, and arrived in Singapore. He established Putien in October 2000 as a small coffee shop on Kitchener Road, operating with seven staff. For the first few years, Putien sustained losses. But Mr Fong clung to his goal of providing authentic Fujian cuisine.

   • 2020 November 23, “Chinese Government Tells Churches to Worship the Communist Party or be Closed”, in Christian Broadcasting Network‎^[7], archived from the original on 11/23/2020‎^[8]:

     The magazine Bitter Winter reports the government's religious affairs department of Putian spent around $75,000 last month to turn the first floor of the Three-Self Church located in the Xiuyu district's Daitou town into a publicity center to promote the Communist Party and its leaders.

• Henghua, Hinghwa, Xinghua

• Putian, P'u-t'ien, Pu-tien, Putien at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Putian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2537, column 2

• Tupian, Uptain, antiup, tipuna