Hai-shen-wei

See also: Haishenwei and Hǎishēnwēi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 海參崴／海参崴 (Hǎishēnwēi) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-shen¹-wei¹.

Proper noun

Hai-shen-wei

1. Alternative form of Haishenwei
   • 1912, Claudius Madrolle, “Manchuria”, in North-Eastern China: Manchuria, Mongolia, Vladivostock, Korea‎^[1], Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 42:

     1604 v., Vladivostock (Hai-shen-wei in Chinese) 8116 v., from Moscow. Buffet. The station is situated in the Western part of the Gold Horn (See MARITIME PROVINCE, R. 1).

   • [1964, Te-kong Tong, “The Marshall Mission and Its Failure”, in United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60‎^[2], Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 130–131:

     Marshall’s concern over Russia was to prove itself not without foundation. The Russians were already exploring areas along the Amur River, and only seven years after Marshall’s warning, Russia acquired an important tract of land between the Ussuri and the sea (including the city of Hai-ts’an-wei^{[sic – meaning Hai-shen-wei]}, later changed to Vladivostok) as a reward for her good offices during the Anglo-French Chinese war of 1858-60.

     (Note: Hai-ts'an-wei is the hyphenated Wade-Giles-derived misspelled name for Haishenwei.)]

   • 1970, Arthur Huck, “Threats to China”, in The Security of China: Chinese Approaches to Problems of War and Strategy‎^[3], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:

     In the era of Manchu decline, however, the Russians were able to obtain by 1860 vast stretches of territory north of the Amur River and, even more importantly, territory east of the Ussuri, which was to become known as the Maritime Province. Here at a fishing place known to the Chinese as Hai-shen-wei they established the port significantly named Vladivostok (‘Lord of the East’).

   • 1971 March 23 [1971 March 20], “USSR Invitation to Japan Militarymen Merits Close Watch”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[4], number 56, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page A 18:

     In the course of consultation between the two sides on the visit, Tsuchiya requested that the Japanese mission be allowed to visit the Soviet units garrisoned along the Sino-Soviet border, the naval base at Hai-shen-wei and the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.

   • 1998, Robert Carter, “Book IV”, in Barbarians‎^[5], Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 227:

     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’.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hai-shen-wei.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Vladivostok”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2042, column 2: “Chinese Hai-shen-wei [=trepang bay]”