Kiaochow

English Proper noun en Jiaozhou. en 1929 Wilson Leon Godshall Tsingtau Under Three Flags https://archive.org/details/tsingtauunderthr00wils/ Shanghai w:The Commercial Press 558750631 14722218M 48 https://archive.org/details/tsingtauunderthr00wils/page/48/ Some contemporaries in China state that the bay and the small city of Kiaochow were too quiet and unattractive for the officers and men of the Russian squadron, who preferred the brighter social life of other ports. en 1998 David Traxel The Glorious First of May 1898: The Birth of the American Century https://archive.org/details/1898birthofameri00trax/ New York w:Alfred A. Knopf 9780679454670 97-34370 37513064 130 https://archive.org/details/1898birthofameri00trax/page/130/ Competition for pieces of China had unsettled the established relationships in the Far East. Germany’s grab of the region of Kiaochow and subsequent control of Shantung province, Britain’s occupation of Weihai, the Russian fortification of Port Arthur, and the growing strength of Japan, resulting from that nation’s victory over China in 1894, perhaps meant that a dismemberment of the great prize was beginning, and none could afford to be left out. en June 27, 2022 Michael Turton Notes from Central Taiwan: Formosa in German colonial dreams https://web.archive.org/web/20220626164526/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/06/27/2003780629 26 June 2022 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Features 13 In 1897, the Germans occupied Kiaochow (Jiazhou Bay zh 膠州灣) in Qingdao, and finally had their port. Translations Jiaozhou Further reading