Lü-shun
See also: Lushun, Lüshun, and Lǚshùn
English
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Map including LÜ-SHUN 旅順 (PORT ARTHUR) (AMS, 1956) →OCLC
Etymology
From Mandarin 旅順/旅顺 (Lǚshùn) Wade–Giles romanization: Lü³-shun⁴.[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: lo͞oʹsho͝onʹ
Proper noun
Lü-shun
- Alternative form of Lüshun
- 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, OCLC 14731588, page 20:
- An epidemic of the disease started in Lü-shun at the end of 1927 and extended to April 1928, involving 271 cases with 14 deaths (Migai, 1928).
- 1967, Jung-pang Lo, editor, K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium, University of Arizona Press, LCCN 66-20911, OCLC 462844653, OL 5990173M, page 139:
- On the evening of the fourteenth day (September 29), when I first landed in Hong Kong, an Englishman, the former lord commissioner of the Admiralty, Lord [Charles] Beresford, also arrived in the city; and he gave me an appointment to see him. [During our conversation] he generously agreed to help save the emperor. I pointed out that the Russians had a garrison of twenty thousand men at Lü-shun and that it might not be advisable for England to take action.
- 1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 96-10750, OCLC 832696260, OL 973826M, page 11:
- Soviet resistance to returning the railway, which cut through the heart of Manchuria, or the naval base at Lü-shun (Port Arthur) and the harbor city of Ta-lien (Dairen or Dalny)—all of which the Soviet Union had regained after Japan's defeat in World War II—continued for a quarter of a century until 1953-55, despite heated Chinese demands for their immediate restitution.
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Translations
Lüshun — see Lüshun
References
- Lüshun, Wade-Giles romanization Lü-shun, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Lü-shun” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.