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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast China on the Taiwan Strait southwest of Fuzhou. It was an important port during the Middle Ages.
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- proper noun A
prefecture -level city in southeasternFujian province,China .
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Sinochem, a unit of Sinochem Group, China's fourth-largest energy company, plans to sell 26.5 billion A shares ahead of the IPO and use the proceeds to fund an oil-refining project based in the Fujian port city of Quanzhou, according to a report on the company's environmental standards published on the ministry's website.
Sinochem Plans Shanghai IPO of up to $5.5 Billion Wayne Ma 2011
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The conglomerate is building a 29.4 billion yuan refinery and petrochemical complex in Quanzhou.
Sinochem Plans Shanghai IPO of up to $5.5 Billion Wayne Ma 2011
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In 1307 Pope Clement V appointed him archbishop of Peking and with further reinforcements from Rome, the Catholics established a thriving community in the southern seaport of Quanzhou in Fujian Province.
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This architectural relief was carved in granite and retrieved from an unrecorded Hindu temple in Quanzhou.
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The New York program will begin on a playfully authentic note, with a performance by the Quanzhou Marionette Theater, which takes song and puppetry traditions from the southwestern Fujian Province to bring to life a wide variety of Chinese folk tales.
Culture and Celebrity Pressman, Matt 2009
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Reuters Soldiers ran from waves triggered by Typhoon Morakot along the shores of Quanzhou, in China's Fujian province on Saturday.
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So maybe it is a time for these kids to re-discover pipa player Wu Man performing with traditional musicians coming from remote areas in rural China, or the marionettes of the Quanzhou opera puppet theatre?
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The New York program will begin on a playfully authentic note, with a performance by the Quanzhou Marionette Theater, which takes song and puppetry traditions from the southwestern Fujian Province to bring to life a wide variety of Chinese folk tales.
Dance: Culture and Celebrity Bateman, Christopher 2009
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The New York program will begin on a playfully authentic note, with a performance by the Quanzhou Marionette Theater, which takes song and puppetry traditions from the southwestern Fujian Province to bring to life a wide variety of Chinese folk tales.
Art: Culture and Celebrity Bateman, Christopher 2009
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In the Yue language family, for example, Cantonese speakers are barely intelligible to Taishan speakers, and the Southern Min dialects of Quanzhou, Changzhou and Xiamen are equally difficult to communicate across.
China’s Ethnic Fault Lines Dru C. Gladney 2009
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