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Haicanwei
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Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 海參崴 Hǎishēnwēi incorrectly as Hǎicānwēi.en 2007 August Aretz Tilman [zh 艾天望] The Chinese provinces The Greater China Factbook zh 大中華百科全書 https://archive.org/details/greaterchinafact0000aret/ Taipei Taiwan Elite Press [zh 時英出版社] 978-986-7762-97-9 264977502 118 https://archive.org/details/greaterchinafact0000aret/page/118/ Places outside today’s PRC:HaicanweiHaishenwei zh 海參崴 = Vladivostok, Russia;
Proper noun
en misspelling
en Haishenwei.
en 1964 w:Tong Tekong The Marshall Mission and Its Failure United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60 https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesdipl0000unse_h4s5/ Seattle w:University of Washington Press 64-11051 265758 130–131 https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesdipl0000unse_h4s5/page/131/ Marshall’s concern over Russia was to prove itself not without foundation. The Russians were already exploring areas along the Amur River, and only seven years after Marshall’s warning, Russia acquired an important tract of land between the Ussuri and the sea (including the city of Hai-ts’an-weiHai-shen-wei, later changed to Vladivostok) as a reward for her good offices during the Anglo-French Chinese war of 1858-60. (Note: Hai-ts'an-wei is the hyphenated Wade-Giles-derived misspelled name for Haishenwei.) on
en 08 February 1991 05 November 1990 Chang Yi [4545 1837] Taiwan-Soviet Economic and Trade Relations Expanding JPRS Report China https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA336166/ !91-007 w:United States Joint Publications Research Service 831665232 102 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA336166/page/n105/ 1 Others believe that the lack of foreign exchange and aviation conduits between Taiwan and the Soviet Union is a barrier to expanded bilateral economic and trade relations. All must be resolved by interpersonal means. With regard to aviation lines in particular, in the near future the Soviet Union will open the port of HaicanweiHaishenwei [3189 0639 5524]. Taiwan’s civil aviation firm may consider whether starting air service would be beneficial to transporting goods.
en 1993 Nineteeth Year of the Guangxu Emperor (1893) Helen Hsieh Chien The European Diary of Hsieh Fucheng https://books.google.com/books?id=B0wBDgAAQBAJ 10.1007/978-1-137-06023-5 978-1-349-60621-4 93-18496 1004381585 180 https://books.google.com/books?id=B0wBDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA180 Through deceit, Russia traded 400 miles of territory in Hunchun with China and built a large trading port at HaicanweiHaishenwei.
en 12 August 2002 2002 May w:Sovetskaya Rossiya China's Encroachment Into Russia https://web.archive.org/web/20260115080853/https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/China-s-Encroachment-Into-Russia/2002/08/12/id/668947/ 15 January 2026 https://www.newsmax.com/pre-2008/china-s-encroachment-into-russia/2002/08/12/id/668947/ w:Newsmax By the way, on July 26, the Hong Kong media reported that during an international scientific conference in HancanweiHaishenwei (the usual name of Vladivostok city in the media and on the maps of Greater China), Chinese and South Korean scientists proposed to change the name of the Sea of Japan to the "Eastern Sea." Probably, after Chinese control over the Maritime region was established, the capital would change its name from Vladivostok to HaicanweiHaishenwei (Bay of Sea Treasures, the name of the Chinese village located on the site before 1860).
en 2006 Yamamuro Shin'ichi Appendix (2004) On the Historical Significance of Manchuria and Manzhouguo w:Joshua A. Fogel Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion https://archive.org/details/manchuriaunderja0000yama/ Philadelphia w:University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-3912-6 2005042367 61652220 249 https://archive.org/details/manchuriaunderja0000yama/page/249/ Although the Qing court rejected and fought against this, in the Treaty of Beijing in 1860 these rights were reaffirmed and the eastern bank of the Ussuri River was ceded to Russia as well. One fishing village by the name of HaicanweiHaishenwei acquired the name Vladivostok, which had the meaning “mastery over the East.” The Maritime Province centered here was then developed as Russian terrain.
en 2022 August 1869 Sungoh Yoon zh:訥穆錦<t:Nemujin> Liability without Suzerainty: Making Sense of Qing China’s Alarmism during the Korean Trespasser Crisis of 1862-75 International Journal of Korean History https://web.archive.org/web/20220923022151/https://ijkh.khistory.org/upload/pdf/ijkh-27-2-131.pdf 27 2 1598-2041 993128608 141 However, since the official concerned was in HaicanweiHaishenwei zh 海参崴 (Vladivostok), dealing with official affairs, I was not able to meet him.
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Usage notes
Note that the character 參 cān, shēn, cēn is a 多音字 character with two or more readings. shēn is the correct pronunciation of the character 參 shēn in the words 海參 sea cucumber and 海參崴 Hǎishēnwēi Haishenwei. However, cān is the more commonly encountered pronunciation of the character 參 cān, appearing, for instance, in the commonly-used words 參加 participate, 參與 participate in and others. Haicanwei reflects an incorrect utilization of the more common pronunciation for the character 參 cān, shēn, cēn.
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