Pukwei

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.

[1904, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 148

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).

1905, Archibald Little, “The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 158

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.

1907, James W. Inglis, “Manchuria”, in Marshall Broomhall, editor, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey, →OCLC, pages 310-311

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.

1914, Wu Lien-Teh, “North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service”, in Wu Lien-Teh, editor, North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports (1911-1913), →OCLC, page 117