Outer Manchuria

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Outer Manchuria

1. The portion of Manchuria in Russia. [from 21st c.]
   • 2009, Christopher Meyer, Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: The Inside Story of British Diplomacy‎^[1], London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 181:

     In particular, Elliot found himself confronted by a redoubtable opponent in Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatyev, the Russian Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Ignatyev was cunning, agile and bold. He had had adventures aplenty and narrow escapes in Central Asia, where he had sought to build Russian influence. A particularly nimble piece of diplomacy had led to his acquiring Outer Manchuria from the Chinese Emperor.

   • 2010, John Vaillant, “Markov”, in The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival‎^[2] (Adventure/Nature), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     Two years later, Czar Alexander II went a step further and coerced the Chinese into signing the Treaty of Peking, thereby adding another slice of Outer Manchuria—what is now Primorye and southern Khabarovsk Territory—to the Russian empire. In the mid-1960s, it seemed as if Mao might try to get them back.

   • 2011, Henry Kissinger, “From Preeminence to Decline”, in On China‎^[3], New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:

     For these services Moscow exacted a staggering territorial price: a broad swath of territory in so-called Outer Manchuria along the Pacific coast, including the port city now called Vladivostok.¹⁴ In a stroke, Russia had gained a major new naval base, a foothold in the Sea of Japan, and 350,000 square miles of territory once considered Chinese.

   • 2012 February 21, Frank Jacobs, “Manchurian Trivia”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-29, Opinion Pages‎^[5]:

     Russian settlers took possession of the fringes of the Chinese world, de facto annexations that were ratified by a series of “unequal treaties” [8], the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and the Russo-Chinese Convention of Peking of 1860, which established the easternmost part of the present-day border between China and Russia [9].

     [9] Establishing what is now known as Russia’s Far East but is still referred to by some in China as Outer Manchuria. Basically, the Russian territory south of the Stanovoy Mountains, a 500-mile-long range that forms the watershed between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and that until 1858 constituted the border between Russia and China.

   • 2019 February, Angela E. Stent, Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest‎^[6], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [7]:

     After praising the border agreement, Deng led the Soviet foreign minister into a room where a map of China lay on the table. The map showed Outer Manchuria, which forms the Russian Primorsky Krai province, as Chinese, not Russian, territory.

Coordinate terms

• Inner Manchuria

Related terms

• South Manchuria

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外東北／外东北 (zh) (Wài Dōngběi)

See also

• Russian Far East
• Boli, Jiangdong, Kuye, Hailanpao, Haishenwei