Mawei

alternative Ma Wei · alternative Ma-wei

1. A district and harbor in Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

   On hearing the news, the Boatmen's Union held an emergency mass meeting, and filed a protest with the authorities concerned, while stopping the communication between Foochow and Mawei.

   1927 June 30 [1927 June 22], “RICE BOAT FIRED ON.”, in The Hongkong Telegraph, number 22,208, sourced from Foochow, →OCLC, page 12, column 3

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   The students' Northern Expedition, organized in Foochow, consists of five leaders, 350 male and 20 female students. The party left Mawei for Shanghai by a China Merchants S.N. Company's liner at 10 a.m. on the 18th instant.

   1912 January 27 [1912 January 18], “THE EXPEDITIONS TO THE NORTH.”, in The Japan Weekly Mail, volume LVII, number 4, Yokohama, sourced from Foochow, page 100, column 1

   More recently the Bethlehem Steel Company, presumably with the indorsement of the Washington Government, offered to China, without demanding any security, an enormous sum for the construction of a dockyard at Mawei, near Foochow. This scheme, however, can not be easily effected, because Mawei is situated in a province where China, in virtue of a treaty with Japan, has no liberty to grant a concession of this nature to any foreign Power.

   1914 July 25, Tokyo Jiji correspondent, quotee, “Japan's Fear of a Chino-American Entente”, in The Literary Digest, volume XLIX, number 4, Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 144, column 2

   All offices of shipping companies in Foochow are located south of Wanshowkiao (萬壽橋), Fanchwanpu (泛船浦), and Chungchow (中州). Only a small wharf is available. Vessels having a tonnage of above 1,000 are required to anchor at Pagoda Anchorage, Mawei (馬尾), about 60 li from the city. All cargo and passengers are transported to the shore by lighters, house boats, or steam launches. The inconvenience has led the Min River Conservancy Board (閩江局) to purchase dredgers for the widening of the river bed between Mawei and Foochow.

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   1926 January, “Shipping Traffic in Foochow”, in The Chinese Economic Monthly [經濟討論處], volume III, number 1, The Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Information, page 16

   A big battle plane was completed at the Naval Airplane Factory at Mawei, Fukien, in August 1929, and christened Hai Tiao.[…] At the end of the same period, an aggregate of 18,600 additional cadets and officers will have undergone thorough training at the naval barracks in Chefoo (Shantung), Nanking, Mawei (Fukien), and Nimrod Sound (Chekiang).

   1930, “Administration”, in Min-ch'ien T. Z. Tyau, editor, Two Years of Nationalist China, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, →OCLC, pages 143, 145

   A despatch from Foochow end of last week stated that three Japanese warships and British and American gunboats were standing by at Mawei.[…] The Chinese marines at Mawei have received orders to move up to Northern Fukien to assist in the campaign against the Reds.

   1933 September 9, “Communists Threaten Fukien City---Missionaries Leave”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 66, number 2, →OCLC, page 51, column 2

   Synonyms: Mamoi, Mainoi