Citations:Haishenwei

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English citations of Haishenwei

  • [1882 [1881], Hung Chang Li, Lin Kun Yi, “Memorial of Li-Hung-Chang and Lin K'un Yi, northern and southern superintendents of trade, supporting and supplementing Lin Ming Ch'uan's memorial on the introduction of railways.”, in Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress, 1881-'82[1], volume 1, number 154, →OCLC, page 249:
    Russia has railways that run from Europe to within a short distance of Haohan, Kiachta, and neighboring places, and she is about to build a line from Hai Shen Wei to Hui Chun. The frontiers of China and Russia are contiguous to each other for some 10,000 li.]
  • 1967, Henry McAleavy, “The Second Opium War”, in The Modern History of China[2], Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
    But a fait accompli even more spectacular than this awaited the Chinese. For the naval officer Nevelskoi had surveyed the Manchurian coast down to the Korean border and had urged successfully that this, too, as far inland as the Ussuri River, must be included in the Tsar’s dominions. At the southern end, in particular, the town of Haishenwei with its harbour would make a splendid port.
  • 1969, Harrison E. Salisbury, “Hitler versus Hitler”, in War Between Russia and China[3], New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 191:
    Another charge against Moscow by Peking is that the Russians have embarked upon "gunboat" diplomacy. They point to the increase of Soviet naval operations in the Far East, conducted not only from the traditional base of Vladivostok (which the Chinese never refer to; they call it by its Chinese name of Haishenwei-presumably by way of indicating their prior claim to Russia's principal Pacific naval station) but from the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
  • 1972, Marina Warner, “Not to Pillage, but . . .”, in The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62:
    Prince Kung, disorientated by the horrors of the last few days, gave in to the envoy and signed the Sino-Russian Treaty of Peking on 14 November 1860. In it he ceded the Amur lands in the north which the Tsarists had already seized, the whole of the Ussuri east of them on the borders of Korea, and the crucial Chinese port of Haishenwei, which had been already stocked with likely Russian inhabitants the year before and rechristened: Vladivostok.
  • 1972, William Henry Parker, “China?”, in The Superpowers: The United States and the Soviet Union Compared[5], New York: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 285–286:
    In China, maps showing Soviet far-eastern territory as Chinese are widely publicised, printed in newspapers, shown on cinema screens and prominent in schools. The Soviet cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok appear on such maps as Chinese towns, renamed Poli and Haishenwei, even though they did not exist before these lands became Russian.
  • 1977 October, Rewi Alley, “To Taching in 1977”, in Eastern Horizon[6], volume XVI, number 10, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
    Once ships could sail down the river to the Heilungkiang (Amur) and from there on to Haishenwei (Vladivostock) until the way was blocked by the Russians.
  • 1987 October 1, “Principles and Adaptations”, in Taiwan Today[7], archived from the original on 2023-04-27:
    Militarily, the ROC has remained closely aligned with the Free World. Historically, it compiled an excellent record by assisting the U.S. and its allies during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. More recently, it has consistently resisted Soviet expansion in Asia by monitoring developments in the air space and in the sea from Haishenwei (Vladivostok) to the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • [1991 February 8 [1990 November 5], Chang Yi [4545 1837], “Taiwan-Soviet Economic and Trade Relations Expanding”, in JPRS Report China[8], numbers 91-007, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 102, column 1:
    Others believe that the lack of foreign exchange and aviation conduits between Taiwan and the Soviet Union is a barrier to expanded bilateral economic and trade relations. All must be resolved by interpersonal means. With regard to aviation lines in particular, in the near future the Soviet Union will open the port of Haicanwei[sic – meaning Haishenwei] [3189 0639 5524]. Taiwan’s civil aviation firm may consider whether starting air service would be beneficial to transporting goods.]
  • [1993, “Nineteeth Year of the Guangxu Emperor (1893)”, in Helen Hsieh Chien, transl., The European Diary of Hsieh Fucheng[9], →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:
    Through deceit, Russia traded 400 miles of territory in Hunchun with China and built a large trading port at Haicanwei[sic – meaning Haishenwei].]
  • [2002 August 12 [2002 May], Sovetskaya Rossiya, “China's Encroachment Into Russia”, in Newsmax[10], archived from the original on 24 May 2023:
    By the way, on July 26, the Hong Kong media reported that during an international scientific conference in Hancanwei[sic – meaning Haishenwei] (the usual name of Vladivostok city in the media and on the maps of Greater China), Chinese and South Korean scientists proposed to change the name of the Sea of Japan to the "Eastern Sea." Probably, after Chinese control over the Maritime region was established, the capital would change its name from Vladivostok to Haicanwei[sic – meaning Haishenwei] (Bay of Sea Treasures, the name of the Chinese village located on the site before 1860).]
  • 2003 July 29, Peter Baker, “A Tense Divide in Russia's Far East”, in The Washington Post[11], archived from the original on 08 July 2022:
    The Chinese who have settled in Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners as home to the Soviet fleet, have taken to calling the city by its old Chinese name, Haishenwei.
  • [2006, Yamamuro Shin'ichi, “Appendix (2004) On the Historical Significance of Manchuria and Manzhouguo”, in Joshua A. Fogel, transl., Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion[12], Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 249:
    Although the Qing court rejected and fought against this, in the Treaty of Beijing in 1860 these rights were reaffirmed and the eastern bank of the Ussuri River was ceded to Russia as well. One fishing village by the name of Haicanwei[sic – meaning Haishenwei] acquired the name Vladivostok, which had the meaning “mastery over the East.” The Maritime Province centered here was then developed as Russian terrain.]