Meaning of Manchuria | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A region of northeastern China comprising the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia.
2. The area traditionally inhabited by the Manchu people and their Jurchen predecessors, in modern China and Russia.
   historical
3. Synonym of Manchukuo: a former puppet state of Imperial Japan.
   historical

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“The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within Manchuria, Korea north of 38 north latitude and Karafuto shall surrender to the Commander in Chief of Soviet Forces in the Far East. (General Order No. 1, 1945)”

“Negotiating with Stalin was like dealing with an octopus. At Yalta it had been agreed that Dairen in China would be an open port that the Chinese could use. And now they were trying- it'd be under the control of the Chinese, that the Russians could use is what I intended to say. And, it was now an approach, by Stalin, that would have given him complete possession of that part of Manchuria. And that, I wasn't in favor of doing.[...]Dairen would be administered by the Chinese, as a Chinese port, but it would be a free port that everybody could use including the Russians.”

“Sinǔiju (or New Uiju) is an industrial and commercial city and wood rafted down the Yalu forms the base of a large forest products industry. Trade with Manchuria and China is funneled through the city to Korea.”

“A native of the Chinese province of Jilin in Manchuria, Mr. Cui said it was a “historical fact” that the home of Russia’s Pacific Fleet and the showcase of President Vladimir V. Putin’s ambitions to project his country as an Asian power is in reality Chinese territory.”

“Aside from the online bickering about kimchi and hanbok, South Korea and China also have a long history dispute over the domain of ancient kingdoms whose territories stretched from the Korean Peninsula to Manchuria.”

“The east coast of Manchuria is generally high and rocky.”

“In 1866, Her Majesty’s ship Scylla, Captain Courtenay, left Nagasaki, Japan, on the 20th of July, with orders to visit the different Russian settlements on the coast of Manchuria, and we are indebted to the Rev. W. V. Lloyd for an excellent account of the trip, given in the thirty-seventh volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society—an account which is further illustrated by a map of Russian Manchuria.”

“Great interest in the Amur development was shown by American traders. When he had won the Amur and had gained coastal Manchuria as well, Muraviev was even more convinced that Alaska was unnecessary to the empire and that it should be ceded to the United States, whose role would be that of protector of the Siberian back door.”

“He had come here to carve a slice of China for the Tsar. A year ago the Russians had annexed Manchuria’s east coast and the strategic port of Hai-shen-wei, renaming it Vladivostok — ‘eastern possession’.”

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