Meaning of Foshan | Babel Free

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A large prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeast China.

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“At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet speaks of a Milanese Jesuit as presiding over a church, with a flock of 10,000 persons : at this day there is probably not one single individual at that same place⟳.”

“Foshan is a town in the neighbourhood of Canton, and happened to be the scene of Colonel Chesney's ill usage.”

“At Foshan, south of Canton, 147 Japanese soldiers have⟳ died of cholera.”

“Ghappar is Uighur, a Muslim minority group that has been the target⟳ of discrimination and oppression by Chinese officials in recent years. In January 2020, officials took Ghappar from his home in the southern city of Foshan to a police station in Kucha, Xinjiang. He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video.”

“This time, metals markets are fixated on an incident in the southern province of Guangdong, in which several traders claim⟳ they were duped into providing credit against fictitious quantities of aluminum. More than 500 million yuan ($75 million) may have⟳ been loaned, backed by stockpiles of the metal stored in a warehouse in the city of Foshan that turned out to be worth significantly less than that.”

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