Meaning of Lüshunkou | Babel Free

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A district of Dalian, Liaoning, China.

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“After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Japanese imperialists forced the Qing government to conclude the Treaty of the Sino-Japanese Meeting on the Affairs of the Three Northeastern Provinces and a supplementary treaty, thus replacing tasarist^([sic – meaning tsarist]) Russia as the colonial power in northeast China. Japan then began to station troops in southern Manchuria and established its Kwantung Army headquarters in Lüshunkou.”

“After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, Japan occupied China's territory Lüshunkou and Dalian.[...] The Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) Massacre On November 21, 1894, the Japanese army seized Lüshunkou.”

“In the Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895), China abandoned its claims to Korea, as well as ceding Taiwan and Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) to Japan.”

“As Davies and Koo had discussed on the Queen Elizabeth, for the Russians, war against Japan offered an opportunity to regain some of the lands lost by the czar in the 1904-1905 Russo- Japanese War, including the southern half of Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Islands, and the ports of Dairen and Port Arthur (today called Lüshunkou)—exactly those territories the Japanese held out as a lure to Soviet cooperation.”

“For the same reason, we suppose, she does not take possession of the Liaotung ports of Lushunkou (Port Arthur) and Talienwan, and their dependencies, but she undertakes to help China to put them in thorough repair against future dangers, and undertakes not to allow any foreign Power to encroach upon them.”

“He coupled this with a warning to Chungking that the USSR would not allow the Nationalists to land troops at Talien because of its status as a commercial port, nor at Lushunkou (Port Arthur), which was a naval base.”

“The invasion of China offered Tulai, as it did his fellow officers, unprecedented opportunities for promotion and ennoblement. He had come to fame in the 1629 raid on Peking early in Hung Taiji's reign; for his valor in the first attack upon the Chinese capital he had been awarded minor hereditary rank. Later he distinguished himself in the battle at Lushunkou in 1643. where his elder brother Xagai died, and in the capture of Datong in 1644.”

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