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Lüshunkou

• Lü-shun-k'ou (Wade–Giles)
• Lushunkou
• Lvshunkou
• Lyushunkou

Borrowed from 旅順口／旅顺口 (Lǚshùnkǒu).

Lüshunkou

1. A district of Dalian, Liaoning, China.
   • 1999 [1995], Chen Yun, Selected Works of Chen Yun‎^[1], volume III, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 399:

     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.

   • 2005 July 28, Jin Xide, translated by Yuan Fang and Wind Gu, Japanese Wartime Aggressors 'Savage and Cruel' – Why and How‎^[2], China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on August 24, 2016:

     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.

   • 2006, Alan Armstrong, Preemptive Strike: the secret plan that would have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70:

     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.

   • 2015, Michael S. Neiberg, Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe‎^[4], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 235:

     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 more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lüshunkou.

• Lüshun, Lushun
• (historical) Port Arthur