Definition of "Fujianese"

Because Fukienese has many spoken dialects, the province has a diversity of operatic styles. Fukienese Opera usually refers to the style prevalent in Fuchou and in the northern and eastern parts of the province.]

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Taiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.

2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester, editors, AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence‎, Longman, page 55

The crisp, mildly sweet water chestnut – "bee-chee" in Mandarin – is the biggest export from the Kuantien district in central Tainan County. The 130-year-old, white and red brick, southern Fujianese-style house is Kuantien’s biggest tourist magnet because it was the boyhood home of Chen Shui-bian.

2004 April 30, Bob Mackin, “Travel Story - In a nutshell”, in Pique Newsmagazine‎, archived from the original on 20 September 2023, Travel‎

Tcheng, a Fujianese, was the first to enthusiastically introduce the poetic competition to a Western audience; he associated it with Western sports to help explain it as a form of entertainment and sociability.

2008, Michel Hockx, Kirk A. Denton, Literary Societies of Republican China, Lexington Books, page 33