Lü-shun

See also: Lushun, Lüshun, and Lǚshùn

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 旅順／旅顺 (Lǚshùn) Wade–Giles romanization: Lü³-shun⁴.[1]

Pronunciation
  • enPR: lüʹ-sho͝onʹ[2]
  • enPR: lo͞oʹsho͝onʹ[3]

Proper noun

Lü-shun

  1. Alternative form of Lüshun
    • 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria‎, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC, 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, →OCLC, →OL, 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, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

Translations
Lüshun — see Lüshun

References
  1. Lüshun, Wade-Giles romanization Lü-shun, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Port Arthur”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1502, column 1
  3. “Lü-shun”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 434, column 2

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