Pronunciations
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/ˈmɑˌweɪ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Proper noun
A district and harbor in Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
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The students' Northern Expedition, organized in Foochow, consists of five leaders, 350 male and 20 female students. The party left Mawei for Shanghai by a China Merchants S.N. Company's liner at 10 a.m. on the 18th instant.
More recently the Bethlehem Steel Company, presumably with the indorsement of the Washington Government, offered to China, without demanding any security, an enormous sum for the construction of a dockyard at Mawei, near Foochow. This scheme, however, can not be easily effected, because Mawei is situated in a province where China, in virtue of a treaty with Japan, has no liberty to grant a concession of this nature to any foreign Power.
All offices of shipping companies in Foochow are located south of Wanshowkiao (萬壽橋), Fanchwanpu (泛船浦), and Chungchow (中州). Only a small wharf is available. Vessels having a tonnage of above 1,000 are required to anchor at Pagoda Anchorage, Mawei (馬尾), about 60 li from the city. All cargo and passengers are transported to the shore by lighters, house boats, or steam launches. The inconvenience has led the Min River Conservancy Board (閩江局) to purchase dredgers for the widening of the river bed between Mawei and Foochow.
On hearing the news, the Boatmen's Union held an emergency mass meeting, and filed a protest with the authorities concerned, while stopping the communication between Foochow and Mawei.
A big battle plane was completed at the Naval Airplane Factory at Mawei, Fukien, in August 1929, and christened Hai Tiao.[…] At the end of the same period, an aggregate of 18,600 additional cadets and officers will have undergone thorough training at the naval barracks in Chefoo (Shantung), Nanking, Mawei (Fukien), and Nimrod Sound (Chekiang).
A despatch from Foochow end of last week stated that three Japanese warships and British and American gunboats were standing by at Mawei.[…] The Chinese marines at Mawei have received orders to move up to Northern Fukien to assist in the campaign against the Reds.
Three destroyers of the Japanese Thirteenth Squadron arrived at Mawei, eight miles from Foochow, Oct. 13 as a precautionary measure following the unrest caused by the arrest of a Formosan constable and five of his friends.
The Rengo reports that following receipt of information that Communists had pillaged Catholic churches established by French missionaries at Fuan and Funing in northern Fukien, the French dispatch-boat "Tahure" left Mawei near Foochow August 7 to protect the Church properties.
A Nationalist source reports secret Soviet submarine operations in connection with the forthcoming campaign against Hainan, (ONI OP-322y2f/oak, 6 Jan.). According to this source, these submarines are 12 in number and are based, not only at Dairen and Port Arthur, but also at Tsingtao and Mawei (near Foochow).
RED CHINA HAS BARRED ALL FOREIGN SHIPS FROM A PORT IN ITS MILITARY BUILDUP AREA NEAR THE MATSU ISLANDS, THE INTERIOR MINISTRY'S TATAO NEWS AGENCY SAID TODAY. TATAO IDENTIFIED THE PORT AS MAWEI (MAMOI) ON THE MIN RIVER APPROACHES TO FOOCHOW, CAPITAL OF FUKIEN PROVINCE. MAWEI IS 35 MILES WEST OF MATSU, MAIN ISLAND IN THE NATIONALIST GROUP 120 MILES NORTHWET^([sic – meaning NORTHWEST]) OF FORMOSA.
Specifically, the motion lifted a ban on direct links between Taiwan's offshore islands--including Quemoy, Matsu and Penghu--and Chinese cities facing them across the narrow Taiwan Strait, including Xiamen and Mawei.