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Lüshunkou
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Lushunkou Lǚshùnkǒu
English
Alternative forms
en Lü-shun-k'ou Wade-Giles
en Lushunkou
en Lvshunkou
en Lyushunkou
Etymology
Borrowed from 旅順口.
Pronunciation
lüʹsho͝onʹkōʹ
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Dalian p/Liaoning c/China.
en 1999 1995 w:Chen Yun Selected Works of Chen Yun https://archive.org/details/selected-works-volume-3/ III Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 7-119-01720-9 903886430 399 https://archive.org/details/selected-works-volume-3/page/399/ After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Japanese imperialists forced the Qing government to conclude the Treaty of the Sino-Japanese Meeting on the Affairs of the Three Northeastern Provinces and a supplementary treaty, thus replacing tasaristtsarist Russia as the colonial power in northeast China. Japan then began to station troops in southern Manchuria and established its Kwantung Army headquarters in Lüshunkou.
en July 28, 2005 Jin Xide Yuan Fang; Wind Gu Japanese Wartime Aggressors 'Savage and Cruel' – Why and How w:China Internet Information Center https://web.archive.org/web/20160824190636/http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/136576.htm August 24, 2016 After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, Japan occupied China's territory Lüshunkou and Dalian.[...]The Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) MassacreOn November 21, 1894, the Japanese army seized Lüshunkou.
en 2006 w:Alan Armstrong Preemptive Strike: the secret plan that would have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor https://archive.org/details/preemptivestrike00alan/ 978-1-59228-913-4 224773380 8861638M 70 https://archive.org/details/preemptivestrike00alan/page/70/ In the Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895), China abandoned its claims to Korea, as well as ceding Taiwan and Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) to Japan.
en 2015 w:Michael S. Neiberg Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe https://archive.org/details/potsdamendofworl0000neib/ w:Basic Books 978-0-465-07525-6 2015007545 891609325 27184462M 235 https://archive.org/details/potsdamendofworl0000neib/page/235/ As Davies and Koo had discussed on the Queen Elizabeth, for the Russians, war against Japan offered an opportunity to regain some of the lands lost by the czar in the 1904-1905 Russo- Japanese War, including the southern half of Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Islands, and the ports of Dairen and Port Arthur (today called Lüshunkou)—exactly those territories the Japanese held out as a lure to Soviet cooperation.
en
Synonyms
en Lüshun, en Lushun, en Lü-shun
historical en Port Arthur
Translations
district of Dalian, Liaoning, China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 旅順口 Lǚshùnkǒu
Manchu: mnc ᠯᡳᠣᡳ ᡧᡡᠨ ᡴᡝᠣ