Hulutao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 葫蘆島／葫芦岛 (Húlúdǎo).
Senses: examples: text: If the scheme is carried out, the Chinese will have two trunk lines running in a generally north-south direction to the east and to the west of the north-south South Manchuria Railway, cutting the Chinese Eastern at two or more points, thereby tapping the wealth of both the Russian and Japanese spheres in Manchuria, and diverting traffic from Vladivostok and Dairen to the port of Hulutao on the Gulf of Liaotung opposite Yingkow. A contract for the development of this port was let to a Dutch company in 1930, the payments to be made from the income of the Peking-Mukden lines.
ref: 1931, Hosea Ballou Morse, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Far Eastern International Relations, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 759:
text: At Hulutao, cautious Admiral Barbey again refused to go ashore because a launch from his flagship was fired upon by several riflemen, supposedly Chinese communists. Then the flotilla repaired to Yingkow, where the Soviets had promised a "guarantee of safety" between October 31 and November 10.
ref: 1946, George Moorad, Behind the Iron Curtain, Fireside Press, →OCLC, page 295:
text: General Malinovsky had again informed General Hsiung that he did not have authority to allow a landing at Dairen. But he had gone on to say that the Soviet government would not oppose landings at other ports of Manchuria—Hulutao, Yingkow and Antung; that in fact the Soviet government was even willing to provide some vehicles needed to move the Chinese troops from these ports. Rather than prolong the delay in starting his troops to Manchuria, the Generalissimo gave up the idea of landing at Dairen. He asked the American navy to take them to Hulutao instead, and the navy agreed to do so.
ref: 1953, Herbert Feis, “The Darkening Prospect”, in The China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 384:
text: Desperate to get his forces into Manchuria quickly Chiang accepted a Soviet suggestion that the Nationalist troops land at the smaller port of Hulutao. General Stratemeyer (Wedemeyer’s acting deputy) agreed and Barbey arrived off Hulutao in his flagship Catoctin on October 27.
ref: 2007, Ronald H. Spector, “'Graft and Corruption Prevail'”, in In the Ruins of Empire: the Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia, Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64:
text: The commander of the Soviet forces in Manchuria proposed three other Manchurian ports: Artung^([sic – meaning Antung]), Yingkow, and Hulutao. Chiang decided to try Hulutao, but the Chinese Communists refused to allow his soldiers to land there, and the Russians said that they could not "guarantee" a safe debarkation.
ref: 2009, Hannah Pakula, “1943-1945”, in The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 534:
text: The clearing of the corridor was to be effected by a convergence of strike forces from the Mukden and Chinchow garrisons with the help of troops from Taiwan landed at the port of Hulutao.[…]
The reinforcement of nine divisions sent from Taiwan, which had landed at the port of Hulutao, was blocked from reaching the Chinchow battle area and reembarked.
ref: 2010, Seymour Topping, “Fall of Manchuria”, in On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41:
text: In early 1931 it planned to cooperate with Zhang Xueliang in order to construct a new transportation and telecommunications system that threatened to undermine the dominant position of the Japanese-controlled Southern Manchurian Railroad, and develop its own port at Hulutao as a competitor with Dairen.
ref: 2015, Alfred J. Rieber, “The borderland thesis: the east”, in Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:
text: Then, on 25 February 1949 there was a mutiny on board the Chongqing, and she absconded that night for the north and the PLA-held port of Yentai (formerly Chefoo). Pursued and bombed by the National Air Force she was moved further north, to Hulutao in the Bohai.
ref: 2016, Richard Wright, “The Chinese Flagship Hai Chi and the Revolution of 1911”, in Warship 2016, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 151, column 1:
text: With the integration into the network of the new port of Hulutao, under construction at that time, the South Manchuria Railway Company and the harbor of Dairen would face harsh[…]
ref: 2023, Lionel P. Fatton, “Appropriate Balancing in the Naval Arms Control Era, 1920–1931”, in Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War: The Institutional Roots of Overbalancing, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of Huludao.