Manchouli

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 滿洲里 (Mǎnzhōulǐ).

Proper noun

Manchouli

1. Dated form of Manzhouli.
   • 1947, Max Beloff, The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1929-1941‎^[1], volume I, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 164:

     Meanwhile Chiang’s most prominent military advisers continued to be the Germans. The German plans for a transcontinental Germany-Russia-China air service (via Sinkiang) through the Eurasia Company set up in 1930 (of which the shareholders were the Chinese Government and the Deutsche Lufthansa A.G.) failed, and the Eurasia Company confined its activities to China proper, although in 1931 mails from Shanghai were delivered by plane to Manchouli to connect with the Trans-Siberian.

   • 1957, James Williams Morley, The Japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918‎^[2], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:

     From the time the Allies invited them into Harbin (the end of December, 1917), Chinese troops had been moving rapidly along the Chinese Eastern Railway to take over garrison duties throughout the zone.⁹ According to Semenov, it was only through a combination of force and trickery that he was able to keep Hailar and Manchouli out of their hands.¹⁰

   • 1966, Raymond L. Garthoff, editor, Sino-Soviet Military Relations‎^[3], Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:

     The ODVA also struck in the west. There, the Russians had organized a special task force comprising 6,000 infantry and 1,600 cavalry, with modest support in the form of artillery, tanks, and aircraft. On November 17, the Soviet forces surrounded the frontier post of Manchouli and its garrison, while other troops farther east assaulted the Chinese position at Chalainor, taking that town November 18. Manchouli fell to the Soviet attack on November 20.

   • 2004, Geoffrey Elliott, “On the Road Again”, in From Siberia with Love: A Story of Exile, Revolution and Cigarettes‎^[4], Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 203:

     Yet again the phrase does not do justice to the nail-biting 750-mile journey through what is left of the ramparts put up by Genghis Khan, mountain ranges, arid plains, alien landscapes and alien people, stopping at little wooden stations identical to those the length and breadth of Russia but with tongue-twisting Chinese names like Manchouli, Pokotu and Tsitsihar.

Anagrams

• halomucin