海参崴：中国人眼中的 '失地' 与胜地

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Andrew Higgins, 海参崴：中国人眼中的 '失地' 与胜地. 纽约时报,  July 25, 2016
http://cn.nytimes.com/world/2016 ... aishenwai-tourists/

, which is translated from

Andrew Higgins, Vladivostok Lures Chinese (Many Think It’s Theirs); A 1860 treaty placed the city in Russian hands. New York Times, July 24, 2016.

Quote:

"For leaders in Beijing and, needless to say, Moscow, Vladivostok is indisputably part of Russia. A series of agreements since 1991 have demarcated their 2,615-mile-long border, clearly fixing what belongs to whom. * * * Nobody at an official level in Beijing is asking that the agreed border be changed

"This [sentiments of ordinary Chinese differ] is despite the fact that the area was never really in the hands of Han Chinese but was controlled instead by non-Chinese peoples who lived in northeast Asia and who periodically swept down to declare themselves masters of China.

"The Chinese Communist Party, which rejoiced at the recovery of Hong Kong and Macau at the end of the 1990s as a final victory over the British and the Portuguese, has tried since to narrow the country's historical grievances to the South China Sea and Taiwan * * * Russia * * * is almost never ranked in official statements alongside Britain, Japan and other former imperial powers that seized territory by force.

"Victor L Larin, the director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East in Vladivostok * * * The notion that Vladivostok was ever a Chinese town, he said, is a 'myth' based on a misreading of evidence that a few Chinese sometimes came to the area to fish and collect sea cucumbers before Russians settled largely uninhabited hills around a natural harbor. That Russia had built Vladivostok, he said, 'is a historical fact that cannot be rewritten.'  The name Chinese use for the city, Haishenwai, roughly translates as 'sea cucumber bay,' though some historians believe the name is not Chinese at all but Manchu

"The city, with a population of about 600,000

Note: 海参崴
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/海參崴
(section 2 名称)