Manchuria

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1. A region of northeastern China comprising the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia.

   The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within Manchuria, Korea north of 38 north latitude and Karafuto shall surrender to the Commander in Chief of Soviet Forces in the Far East. (General Order No. 1, 1945)

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   Negotiating with Stalin was like dealing with an octopus. At Yalta it had been agreed that Dairen in China would be an open port that the Chinese could use. And now they were trying- it'd be under the control of the Chinese, that the Russians could use is what I intended to say. And, it was now an approach, by Stalin, that would have given him complete possession of that part of Manchuria. And that, I wasn't in favor of doing.[...]Dairen would be administered by the Chinese, as a Chinese port, but it would be a free port that everybody could use including the Russians.

   1965, Harry S. Truman, MP2002-390 Former President Truman Recalls Stalin's Broken Agreement About the Port of Dairen, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2021

   Sinǔiju (or New Uiju) is an industrial and commercial city and wood rafted down the Yalu forms the base of a large forest products industry. Trade with Manchuria and China is funneled through the city to Korea.

   1968, “SINŬIJU”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 569

   A native of the Chinese province of Jilin in Manchuria, Mr. Cui said it was a “historical fact” that the home of Russia’s Pacific Fleet and the showcase of President Vladimir V. Putin’s ambitions to project his country as an Asian power is in reality Chinese territory.

   2016 July 23, Andrew Higgins, “Vladivostok Lures Chinese Tourists (Many Think It’s Theirs)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2016, Asia Pacific

   Aside from the online bickering about kimchi and hanbok, South Korea and China also have a long history dispute over the domain of ancient kingdoms whose territories stretched from the Korean Peninsula to Manchuria.

   2022 February 5, Kim Tong-hyung, “S. Korea politicians criticize China over traditional dress”, in AP News, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2022

2. historicalThe area traditionally inhabited by the Manchu people and their Jurchen predecessors, in modern China and Russia.

   The east coast of Manchuria is generally high and rocky.

   1848 January 10, Aaron H. Palmer, Memoir, Geographical, Political, and Commercial, on the Present state, productive resources, and capabilities for commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic islands of the Northern Pacific ocean, page 34

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   In 1866, Her Majesty’s ship Scylla, Captain Courtenay, left Nagasaki, Japan, on the 20th of July, with orders to visit the different Russian settlements on the coast of Manchuria, and we are indebted to the Rev. W. V. Lloyd for an excellent account of the trip, given in the thirty-seventh volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society—an account which is further illustrated by a map of Russian Manchuria.

   1868 October, “The Russians in Manchuria”, in New Monthly Magazine, volume CXLIII, number DLXXVIV, page 377

   Great interest in the Amur development was shown by American traders. When he had won the Amur and had gained coastal Manchuria as well, Muraviev was even more convinced that Alaska was unnecessary to the empire and that it should be ceded to the United States, whose role would be that of protector of the Siberian back door.

   1965, Hector Chevigny, “The Sale”, in Russian America: The Great Alaskan Venture, 1741-1867, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206

   He had come here to carve a slice of China for the Tsar. A year ago the Russians had annexed Manchuria’s east coast and the strategic port of Hai-shen-wei, renaming it Vladivostok — ‘eastern possession’.

   1998, Robert Carter, “Book IV”, in Barbarians, Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 227

3. historicalSynonym of Manchukuo: a former puppet state of Imperial Japan.

   Synonyms: Manchukuo