Pukwei

English Etymology From en cmn 卜奎. Proper noun en Qiqihar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name. en https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeo00hosigoog/mode/2up 1904 Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History Alexander Hosie Charles Scribner's Sons New York 148 https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeo00hosigoog/page/n153/ In the western range, and about sixiy miles from the Argun River, rises the Nonni, the most important waterway flowing through the province. On its way to the Sungari, which it joins at Shui-shih-ying-tzu, twenty miles to the north of the town of Petuna (Hsin Ch'eng), it passes on its left bank the town of Mergen and Tsi-tsi-har, known to the Chinese as Pu-k'uei, the capital of the province. on en 1905 Archibald Little The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria The Far East https://archive.org/details/fareast00litt_0/ Oxford w:Clarendon Press 2234766 158 https://archive.org/details/fareast00litt_0/page/158/ https://books.google.com/books?id=qLYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA158 North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900). en 1907 James W. Inglis Manchuria w:Marshall Broomhall The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey https://archive.org/details/chineseempiregen1907broo_202011/ 671400 310-311 https://archive.org/details/chineseempiregen1907broo_202011/page/311/ https://books.google.com/books?id=XbB4faUT540C&pg=PA311 Heilungkiang Province.The Chinese have colonised a considerable area about Hulan, reaching to 100 miles north of the Sungari. Here are several prosperous towns, with an export trade similar to that on the south bank. Beyond this area the government is still purely Manchu. The capital is Tsitsihar or Pukwei, around which a settled population is found. Thence to the Amur are a few garrison towns, and in the extreme north are the gold mines of Moho. en 1914 Wu Lien-Teh North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Wu Lien-Teh North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports (1911-1913) https://archive.org/details/b28082965/ 68678107 117 https://archive.org/details/b28082965/page/117/ https://books.google.com/books?id=dSY6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA117 I travelled to Pukwei on December 2nd to pay my respects to the Tutuh of Heilungkiang (Mr Sung Hsiao Lien), and after consultation with Mr Chang Shou Tseng, Director of the Foreign Bureau (formerly Prefect of Lupinfu) suggested that the balance of the funds which had been appropriated for the building of the Manchouli Hospital be passed over to the Service for the construction of the Taheiho Hospital next spring. en 1917 W. Feldwick The Provinces and Dependencies Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent & Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad https://books.google.com/books?id=_YFHAQAAMAAJ 14962837 164 https://books.google.com/books?id=_YFHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA164 3 Tsitsihar, or Pukwei, is the capital of Heilungkiang, its chief mart being Aigun, on the Amur. en