Sentence examples for fujianese from inspiring English sources

This June, Mr Gokongwei jumped back into the headlines with the biggest and most controversial idea of his entire career.The proposed deal, if it goes through, will mean that the leading Filipino tycoon of Fujianese descent, Mr Gokongwei, has bailed out the leading (but flailing) Indonesian tycoon of Fujianese descent, Anthony Salim, by paying $617m for most of Mr Salim's Philippine assets.

Half-a-dozen of the corpses were brought up in the nets of Fujianese fishermen.

They are the descendants of Fujianese who fled to the island to escape upheavals on the mainland.

Several million Fujianese live abroad, accounting for some one-fourth of all Chinese living in more than 90 countries.

The nanyin dongxiao is an important instrument in the nanyin ("southern music"; Fujianese) or nanguan ("southern pipes"; Taiwanese) ensemble.

Guangdong is famous for its two types of local opera: the Yue Opera and the Chao Opera, which are popular among the Cantonese and Fujianese communities.

But while in Chinatown they feel venerated — served sparingly in, say, broth bobbing with pork-filled Fujianese fish balls and a handful of fresh spinach leaves — in Hung Ry's overwrought concoctions they seem beside the point.

New York's established Cantonese community saw the Fujianese as strivers and peasants.

The Fujianese (sometimes called Fukienese) had various reasons for leaving home — what demographers call "push factors" — ranging from political repression to China's policies of sterilization and forced abortion.

"It was like having a good Fujianese F.B.I. agent on the case".

But, as Fujianese immigrants took over restaurants, they adopted their predecessors' menus, offering the same spring rolls and egg foo young.