Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Lüshunkou.
If Mukden sought to reflect the battles of the past, the five-month Siege of Port Arthur anticipated the future of war. The Siege of Port Arthur, as China’s Lyushunkou District was then known, proved to be iconoclastic.
2014 November 4, Joseph Hammond, “Siege of Port Arthur: Verdun in Manchuria”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 11 Nov 20143 more examples
On the legal documents, he carried, Boris's last ports of call were Lyushunkou District/Port Arthur and Dalian on the tip of Manchuria-a two or three-day sailing trip around the southern tip of Chosŏn from the Yellow Sea and back to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan.
2018, Carl Douglass, “Even More Tense Times”, in The Mysterious Alexandra Tarasova-Yusupov, →ISBN, →OCLCThe so-called Twenty-one Demands that extended the lease of Lyushunkou and Dalian had a section that invalidated the "Treaty regarding South Manchuria and East Mongolia” (established 1915), and there was a movement to return these lands to China, including the organization of anti-Japanese boycotts.
2020, Hitoshi Tanaka, Historical Narratives of East Asia in the 21st Century, →ISBN, →OCLCThe Kwantung Territory became the first and last colony of the Russian Empire located outside its borders. The port of Lyushunkou, already widely known as Port Arthur, was destined to become a military base of Russia, while the port of Dalianvan, which was named “Dalniy”, was intended to be a commercial port.
2021, “DALNIY — A COMMERCIAL PORT OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE ON THE SHORES OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN”, in cyberleninka.ru, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2021
Origin
From a modified form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 旅順口/旅顺口 (Lǚshùnkǒu).
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