ZhaoAn is a County in the municipal region

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 of Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. Located on the banks of the Jiulong River , Zhangzhou borders the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou to the northeast, Longyan City to the northwest and the province of Guangdong to the southwest.Zhangzhou...

, Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

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Qing & Republic

In May 1907, county officials arrested on suspicion of piracy the local leaders of a movement called the "White Fan". These escaped, rallied their followers and captured the top Mandarin

Mandarin (bureaucrat)

A mandarin was a bureaucrat in imperial China, and also in the monarchist days of Vietnam where the system of Imperial examinations and scholar-bureaucrats was adopted under Chinese influence.-History and use of the term:...

 and killed the sheriff. 30,000 strong, they menaced Chaozhou

Chaozhou

Chaozhou is a city in eastern Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast...

. The anti-dynastic rebels had been gaining in popular support in the MinNan

Min Nan

The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan , are a family of Chinese languages spoken in southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and southern Zhejiang provinces of China, and by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora....

-speaking south of Fujian since 1906; local government soldiers would not fight them.

Qing troops were despatched from Fuzhou

Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong linguistic and cultural area....

 and Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, capitals of the two affected provinces. Engaging the rebels at the end of the month, they killed 600. Some of the citizens of Zhangzhou fu

Zhangzhou fu

Zhangzhou fu was a prefecture in Fujian Province in China's imperial and early republican eras. The region, especially its governmental/commercial centre, was long known to English-readers accustomed to Wade-Giles romanisation as Changchow fu....

 felt themselves to be in danger, and came down to Xiamen

Xiamen

Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...

, where alongside other vessels of the global order, the United States Navy gunboat Helena

USS Helena (PG-9)

USS Helena was a gunboat of the United States Navy that participated in the Spanish-American War and was later stationed in the Far East for many years....

 floated in Xiamen Bay

Xiamen Bay

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Towns (镇, zhen)

• Sidu (四都镇)
• Meling (梅岭镇)
• Qiaodong (桥东镇)
• Nanzhao (南诏镇)
• Taiping (太平镇)
  Taiping Town
  -Fujian:*Taiping, Zhao'an County, in Zhangzhou*Taiping, Nanping, in Yanping District, Nanping-Guangdong:*Taiping, Conghua, in Guangzhou*Taiping, Shixing County, in Shaoguan*Taiping, Zhanjiang, in Mazhang District, Zhanjiang...
  
  
• 霞葛镇
• 官陂镇
• 秀篆镇
• 深桥镇

Townships (乡, xiang)

• Meizhou (梅洲乡)
• Jinxing (金星乡)
• Xitan (西潭乡)
• Baiyang (白洋乡)
• Jianshe (建设乡)
• Hongxing (红星乡)
  Hongxing Township
  Hongxing Township is a township-level division situated in Huangshan City, Anhui, China....