英和和英

固有名詞

Paichuan

1. Alternative form of Baiquan.
   • 1955, Hsinhua News Agency Release‎, →OCLC, page 201, column 2:

     […] machinegun bullets at the "Incharran" while it was sailing near the Paichuan Islands. After forcing it to stop, the Chiang pirates boarded and searched the ship. They also took the ship to the Paichuan Islands, detaining it for 48 hours.

   • 1955 December 31, “Chiang Says Time Near For Mainland Uprising”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume 48, number 31, Boston, sourced from Associated Press, Taipei, Formosa, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:

     Another possibility is an assault on the two Paichuan islands in the Matsus. Less than a square mile in area, they are too war—11 miles south — from Matsu for artillery support or quick reinforcement.
     The official Central News agency said a Nationalist patrol boat Dec. 28 captured six Communist spies disguised as fishermen as they approached within 1,000 yards of the Paichuan in a motorized fishing craft. They were taken to Matsu for questioning.

   • 1968 July 16, “Red China Warns U.S. on Intrusions”, in The Japan Times, number 24,976, sourced from HONGKONG (Kyodo-Reuter), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

     Communist China has issued another serious warning to the United States over U.S. intrusions into Chinese air and sea space, the New China News Agency reported Sunday.
     The agency said a U.S. warship intruded in Chinese waters on July 11 and 12 east of the Paichuan Islands in Fukien Province.

   • 1972 [1952 November 24], Henry R. Lieberman, “Islands Outposts for War on Peiping”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China‎, Arno Press, sourced from Hong Kong, The New York Times, December 7, 1952, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161, column 2:

     The main Nationalist island bases off Fukien include Big and Little Quemoy, which are within artillery range of Communist-held Amoy; Matsu, forty miles northeast of Foochow, and the Paichuan Islands (Hsichuan and Tungchuan), about fifteen miles southeast of Matsu. Among the major Chekiang bases are the Yüshan Islands, about 160 miles southeast of Shanghai; the Tachen Islands, about thirty miles southeast of Haimen on Taichow Bay, and Peishan about forty miles northeast of Wenchow.

   • [2000, Humphrey Hawksley, Dragon Fire‎ (Fiction), Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 328:

     Meanwhile, fishermen on the islands of Pei-kan, Nan-kan and Pai-chuan have asked Chinese troops for help in building cyclone shelters for their boats.]

   • 2000 September 1, “Notes From a Small Island”, in Taiwan Review‎, archived from the original on September 18, 2024:

     Certain offshore islands were and are controlled by the ROC, but under the Constitution they technically remain the territory of Fujian Province. Bills circulating on these islands had to bear special marks. Currency notes earmarked for use on Kinmen and Matsu, and the islets of Paichuan and Tachen, either showed the name of the island or were stamped with the rubric "for circulation in Kinmen only," for example. Residents of Taiwan proper who visited those places had to exchange their money at banks when they got there, and vice versa.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Paichuan.