Lushun
English
Proper noun
Lushun
- Alternative form of Lüshun
- 1958, C. P. Fitzgerald, Flood Tide in China, London: The Cresset Press, page 247:
- Following the Boxer Rebellion in 1901, Russia occupied Manchuria and pushed down to the warm water ports of Lushun and Talienwan, which she obtained on lease, and renamed Port Arthur and Dalny.
- 1970, Han Woo-keun, Lee Kyung-shik, transl.; Grafton K. Mintz, editor, The History of Korea, eighteenth reprinting edition, Seoul: Eul-Yoo Publishing Co., Ltd., published 1986, page 414:
- The Chinese army was defeated at P'yongyang and driven out of Korea. Chinese naval forces were defeated in numerous engagements, and the Japanese occupied the strategic naval base of Lushun (Port Arthur) on the Liaotung peninsula, Weihaiwei on the Shantung peninsula, and the island of Taiwan. China was forced to ask for negotiations, and in April of 1895 the treaty of Shimonoseki brought the war to a close.
References
- “Lushun, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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